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Next to You by The Police

A Rock Band chart, from the Rock Band 1 pack.

Harmonix / Rock Band / Official / Outlandos d'Amour / 1978 / Rock

On Expert Lead it scores D 13.51, Calc Tier 2, at or above 7% of the site’s Expert Guitar charts. On Expert Bass it scores D 12.59, Calc Tier 2, at or above 50% of the site’s Expert Bass charts. On Expert Drums it scores D 17.53, Calc Tier 4, at or above 64% of the site’s Expert Drums charts. On Expert Vocals it scores D 10.65, Calc Tier 3, at or above 73% of the site’s Expert Vocals charts.

Difficulty graph of Next to You by The Police: notes per second, fret changes per second and their geometric mean over time

PartExpertHardMediumEasy
Lead Tier 213.517%12.1922%8.1841%5.0057%
Bass Tier 212.5950%11.1963%4.5240%4.3475%
Drums Tier 417.5364%15.5974%13.2589%10.3789%
Vocals Tier 310.6573%

Ranked #49 of 62 songs in Rock Band 1 on Expert guitar, and #2089 of the 2,257 songs on the site with an Expert guitar chart. 482 notes over 2:39, 3.0 a second on average.

Nearby on Expert guitar: harder: Parasite by The Neighborhoods (D 13.53, tier 2), Salvation by Rancid (WaveGroup) (D 13.54, tier 2); easier: Today by The Smashing Pumpkins (D 13.51, tier 2), Hello There by Cheap Trick (D 13.50, tier 2)

In Rock Band 1: harder: Seven by VAGIANT (D 13.64, tier 2), Blitzkrieg Bop by Ramones (D 14.41, tier 2); easier: Orange Crush by R.E.M. (D 13.07, tier 2), Mississippi Queen by Mountain (WaveGroup) (D 12.79, tier 2)

More by The Police: Demolition Man (Live) by The Police (D 43.28, tier 4), So Lonely by The Police (D 30.68, tier 4), Don't Stand So Close to Me by The Police (D 24.37, tier 3), Message in a Bottle by The Police (D 24.08, tier 3)

From Rock Band 1, 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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