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Smoke On The Water by Deep Purple (WaveGroup)

A Guitar Hero chart.

Harmonix / Guitar Hero / Official / Machine Head / 1972 / Hard Rock

On Expert Lead it scores D 11.04, Calc Tier 3, at or above 29% of the site’s Expert Guitar charts.

Difficulty graph of Smoke On The Water by Deep Purple (WaveGroup): notes per second, fret changes per second and their sum over time

PartExpertHardMediumEasy
Lead Tier 311.0429%7.6517%6.6845%5.2260%

Ranked #22 of 56 songs in Guitar Hero on Expert guitar, and #1583 of the 2,257 songs on the site with an Expert guitar chart. 898 notes over 5:57, 2.5 a second on average.

Nearby on Expert guitar: harder: Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land by Marina (D 11.04, tier 3), Seventeen by Peach Pit (D 11.05, tier 3); easier: Smoke On the Water by Deep Purple (WaveGroup) (D 11.04, tier 3), Dashboard by Modest Mouse (D 11.03, tier 3)

In Guitar Hero: harder: Godzilla by Blue Oyster Cult (WaveGroup) (D 11.22, tier 3), Fly On The Wall by Din (D 11.26, tier 3); easier: Fire It Up by Black Label Society (D 10.99, tier 3), Cochise by Audioslave (WaveGroup) (D 10.92, tier 3)

More by Deep Purple (WaveGroup): Hush by Deep Purple (WaveGroup) (D 11.69, tier 3), Smoke On the Water by Deep Purple (WaveGroup) (D 11.04, tier 3)

From Guitar Hero, 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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