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Hurts So Good by John Mellencamp

A Guitar Hero 5 chart.

Neversoft / Guitar Hero 5 / Official / American Fool / 1982 / Rock

On Expert Lead it scores D 8.70, Calc Tier 2, at or above 9% of the site’s Expert Guitar charts. On Expert Bass it scores D 5.51, Calc Tier 0, at or above 5% of the site’s Expert Bass charts. On Expert Drums it scores D 13.33, Calc Tier 2, at or above 16% of the site’s Expert Drums charts. On Expert Vocals it scores D 18.03, Calc Tier 2, at or above 28% of the site’s Expert Vocals charts. As a band it places at tier 2, the mean of its two hardest core parts.

Difficulty graph of Hurts So Good by John Mellencamp: notes per second, fret changes per second and their sum over time

PartExpertHardMediumEasy
Lead Tier 28.709%7.1611%5.6121%3.8221%
Bass Tier 05.515%5.007%3.9812%3.2525%
Drums Tier 213.3316%11.4419%8.5328%6.6446%
Vocals Tier 218.0328%———

Ranked #77 of 90 songs in Guitar Hero 5 on Expert guitar, and #2051 of the 2,257 songs on the site with an Expert guitar chart. 607 notes over 3:40, 2.8 a second on average.

Nearby on Expert guitar: harder: Radio Song by Superbus (D 8.71, tier 2), Paparazzi (triple j Like A Version) by Thornhill (D 8.71, tier 2); easier: Sunday Morning by No Doubt (D 8.70, tier 2), When You Were Young by The Killers (D 8.65, tier 2)

In Guitar Hero 5: harder: Under Pressure by Queen & David Bowie (D 8.77, tier 2), Steady As She Goes by The Raconteurs (D 8.89, tier 2); easier: You & Me by Attack! Attack! (D 8.51, tier 2), L.A. by Elliott Smith (D 8.28, tier 1)

From Guitar Hero 5, whose every song is ranked by difficulty on its page.

D is the difficulty fretwork computes from the chart’s note density and movement, with the percentile among charts of the same instrument and level on the site and the Calc Tier anchored to the Expert chart; how it is scored and what the library holds. A number opens that chart’s graph.

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