Sequencing a song is not as easy as it sounds. After you find that song you want to put in your show, now you have to synchronize the lights to it. Making the lights blink exactly when you want during the song is called sequencing and its a bit tricky. Listen carefully to the song a few times and you will notice that it has a beat, different instruments, some parts that are the same, voices or choirs, sometimes different beats, silences, sound effects and even characters talking. A good show will reflect all of this at your bidding coming from your imagination. Think of it as adding layer upon layer of patterns until a full sequence is made. Every light element can be an instrument like maybe the lights on the minitrees can be keys struck on a piano or the star may be coming from a choir. All these choices are yours to choreograph as you like. Vixen uses a structure that has periods of time or "events" going across the horizontal of the grid and the amount of channels going down the vertical. Any point where these two intersect is an event that can be manipulated on or off. If your system has the capability, even to brighten or dim from 0% (off) to 100% (on full). A good sequence will have lights coming on to create the most dramatic effect according to the music. Also note that not all the channels have to be doing something all the time. Build the suspense to get that oooh and aahhh factor your audience will talk about long after Christmas is over.
