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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 8.30, Calc Tier 1, at or above 7% of the site’s Expert Guitar charts. On Expert Bass it scores D 9.10, Calc Tier 2, at or above 58% 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 24.06, Calc Tier 3, at or above 65% of the site’s Expert Vocals charts. As a band it places at tier 3, the mean of its two hardest core parts.

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

PartExpertHardMediumEasy
Lead Tier 18.307%8.0422%7.2357%5.4066%
Bass Tier 29.1058%8.8477%4.8434%4.7973%
Drums Tier 417.5364%15.5974%13.2589%10.3790%
Vocals Tier 324.0665%———

Ranked #51 of 62 songs in Rock Band 1 on Expert guitar, and #2101 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: Hungry Like the Wolf by Duran Duran (D 8.30, tier 1), A Million Ways by OK Go (D 8.30, tier 1); easier: Sail Your Ship By by Count Zero (D 8.29, tier 1), Exo-Politics by Muse (D 8.28, tier 1)

In Rock Band 1: harder: Orange Crush by R.E.M. (D 8.35, tier 1), Blitzkrieg Bop by Ramones (D 8.35, tier 1); easier: Here It Goes Again by OK Go (D 8.25, tier 1), Detroit Rock City by KISS (D 8.21, tier 1)

More by The Police: Demolition Man (Live) by The Police (D 16.04, tier 5), So Lonely by The Police (D 12.78, tier 4), Message in a Bottle by The Police (D 10.80, tier 3), Don't Stand So Close to Me by The Police (D 10.59, 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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