While roaming Pirate Goo Lagoon inSpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake, you meet a mermaid. In the show, they usually travel in a group, but this one is alone. And she’s not exactly in the best mood.

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She needs somebody to brighten up her day, and there’s nobody better at that than SpongeBob and Patrick. However, cheering her up isn’t a completely selfless act. After all, your progress is blocked, and you need her special mermaid magic to create a path for you. So, this is how you play her a tune to improve her mood and convince her to help you progress.

How To Play Music

Thankfully, the game doesn’t force you to go to any of the nearby little islands to get instruments or anything. Everything you need to play music is already right next to the mermaid. This is because to play a tune, all you need areyour bubbles and the giant pansthat are hung up nearby.

Like when you use your bubble attack on enemies, you need to wait for theicon to appear over the panyou’re targeting to fire a bubble at it. Once youhit them in the right sequence, the mermaid will be pleased and help you out.

SpongeBob SquarePants The Cosmic Shake Screenshot Of SpongeBob Speaking With Mermaid

What Is The Sequence

Right next to the set of pans isa telescopethat you can hit with a spin attack. When you do, you’ll look through it tosee the sequence you must follow.

It goesorange pot, orange pot, blue pan, red pan, green pan, and orange pot.

SpongeBob SquarePants Cosmic Shake Split Image Of Telescope And Music Sequence

The numbers in the image below aren’t the sequence. They’re a way to label the pans.

Or if colors aren’t your thing, and you were to label the pans from one to four,starting with one on the far left, then the sequence isfour, four, three, one, two, and four.

SpongeBob SquarePants Cosmic Shake Screenshot Of Musical Pans Numbered From 1 to 4

If you hit the wrong pan, they may all disappear. To get them back, speak with the mermaid.

Hit the pans with your bubbles in that order, and thenspeak with the mermaid againto have her make you a path forward. You don’t seem to have to worry too much about timing, as you may hit the pans as slowly as possible.