From the SBL home page, choose a song to join a lobby. On the waiting screen, choose your team (ライブ編成, it's the second button from the top on the right). You can also see the Room Goals (see Group Goals) and the difficulty that was chosen for you (see Live Difficulty Selection) at the top of the right side. After a short countdown, the Live will start!

You play a Live as usual, but you will automatically send and receive special Support Notes to and from other players (see Support Notes). They are surrounded by triangles and can give you big bonuses if you hit them! The effects are decided by the types of the Cards you and the other players in the room have in the SP Skill unit.

You will gain SBL medals from the group's performance, but also if you excel individually in certain categories (see MVP Titles). If you find it hard to get any of the MVP Titles, you can try creating a team focusing on only one of these categories. There is also an Overall MVP Title for even more extra medals for the player who did the best in the three categories - you'll need a good team to get this one, so don't worry too much if you can't get there from the beginning.

Finally, there's massive daily and overall ranking medal bonuses. These depend on your total daily best Voltage for all three songs. This ranking bonus is the biggest source of medals by far, so make sure to play each song at least once every day. SBL days reset at midnight JST along with the daily missions, so make sure to play on the partial days that happen at the event start and end, too!

During every SBL, certain cards will gain a boost to all stats (for example, “20% to 2nd Years” or “50% to µ's Members”), so build your teams around them! You will see an “ALL” icon on the Cards if they are affected by the boost. The stat boost only applies during SBL Lives.

Another special gimmick in SBL Lives is that you won't get a game over as usual if you hit 0 Stamina - instead, you can continue playing. Your Voltage will still be counted for the rankings, your SP Skill still charges as usual, and everything you do is still counting for MVP Titles. However, you will have to deal with an 80% Voltage penalty.

You are not permanently locked at 0 Stamina though: if you can proc a Heal Skill, you can get yourself back out of the Stamina-less state, and you'll be back to only 40% Voltage penalty.