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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 16.04, Calc Tier 2, at or above 12% of the site’s Expert Guitar charts. On Expert Bass it scores D 5.09, Calc Tier 0, at or above 12% of the site’s Expert Bass charts. On Expert Drums it scores D 13.33, Calc Tier 3, at or above 16% of the site’s Expert Drums charts. On Expert Vocals it scores D 5.78, Calc Tier 1, at or above 20% of the site’s Expert Vocals charts.

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

PartExpertHardMediumEasy
Lead Tier 216.0412%10.4714%5.7219%2.8222%
Bass Tier 05.0912%4.3714%2.9018%2.0133%
Drums Tier 313.3316%11.4418%8.5328%6.6446%
Vocals Tier 15.7820%

Ranked #70 of 90 songs in Guitar Hero 5 on Expert guitar, and #1977 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: 29 Fingers by The Konks (D 16.04, tier 2), The Columbian Faction by Volumes (D 16.06, tier 2); easier: American Woman by The Guess Who (D 16.02, tier 2), Dammit (Growing Up) by Blink-182 (D 16.02, tier 2)

In Guitar Hero 5: harder: Feel Good Inc. by Gorillaz (D 16.19, tier 2), Judith by A Perfect Circle (D 16.25, tier 2); easier: Under Pressure by Queen & David Bowie (D 15.74, tier 2), Bug Eyes by dredg (D 15.61, tier 2)

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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