How to play

Notes scroll down the highway. Press the matching key as each one reaches the line at the bottom. Every ten notes in a row raises your multiplier, up to four times. Pressing a lane when there's no note breaks your combo, so mashing doesn't pay. Hits fill your Hype meter, and once it's half full you can trigger it for double points. Esc pauses.

Before your first song

Open Settings to set things up for your computer:

• Calibrate if notes feel early or late. Tap Space along with the clicks and the audio offset is set for you. Do this again if you switch to Bluetooth or different headphones.
• Keys lets you pick which keyboard keys play the lanes. Choose F1–F5, strum with Home to hold the keyboard like a guitar: frets on the F-keys, strum with Home or End.
• Background and Missed notes turn the stage lights and the miss sound down or off.
• Timing meter shows whether your hits land early or late. After a solo song, if you were consistently off, the results screen offers to fix the audio offset for you.
• Controller works with Xbox and PlayStation gamepads, or a Guitar Hero style guitar. Use Remap buttons if they don't match.
• Note speed changes how fast notes scroll. Faster spreads them out and makes busy songs easier to read.