Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple
A Rock Band 3 chart.
Harmonix / Rock Band 3 / Official / Machine Head / 1972 / Classic Rock
On Expert Lead it scores D 18.67, Calc Tier 3, at or above 18% of the site’s Expert Guitar charts. On Expert Bass it scores D 15.93, Calc Tier 2, at or above 66% of the site’s Expert Bass charts. On Expert Keys it scores D 29.34, Calc Tier 4, at or above 84% of the site’s Expert Keys charts. On Expert Drums it scores D 20.66, Calc Tier 5, at or above 85% of the site’s Expert Drums charts. On Expert Vocals it scores D 13.05, Calc Tier 4, at or above 87% of the site’s Expert Vocals charts.
| Part | Expert | Hard | Medium | Easy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lead Tier 3 | 18.6718% | 10.2213% | 5.5818% | 1.7910% |
| Bass Tier 2 | 15.9366% | 9.4051% | 5.1749% | 1.5423% |
| Keys Tier 4 | 29.3484% | 17.6990% | 7.6790% | 3.8498% |
| Drums Tier 5 | 20.6685% | 13.6147% | 11.3572% | 9.3481% |
| Vocals Tier 4 | 13.0587% | — | — | — |
Ranked #52 of 82 songs in Rock Band 3 on Expert guitar, and #1854 of the 2,257 songs on the site with an Expert guitar chart. 805 notes over 5:50, 2.3 a second on average.
Nearby on Expert guitar: harder: Killer Queen by Queen (D 18.69, tier 3), All My Life by Foo Fighters (D 18.69, tier 3); easier: (Bang Your Head) Metal Health by Quiet Riot (WaveGroup) (D 18.64, tier 3), Stray Cat Blues by The Rolling Stones (D 18.64, tier 3)
In Rock Band 3: harder: The Con by Tegan and Sara (D 18.93, tier 3), Need You Tonight by INXS (D 19.11, tier 3); easier: Fly Like an Eagle by Steve Miller Band (D 18.42, tier 3), Don't Bury Me... I'm Still Not Dead by Riverboat Gamblers (D 17.88, tier 2)
More by Deep Purple: Burn by Deep Purple (D 72.20, tier 6), Highway Star by Deep Purple (D 35.41, tier 4), Space Truckin' by Deep Purple (D 26.09, tier 3), Woman From Tokyo ('99 Remix) by Deep Purple (D 23.45, tier 3), Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple (D 22.94, tier 3)
From Rock Band 3, 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.