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Surfing with the Alien by Joe Satriani

A Guitar Hero III: Legends Of Rock DLC chart, from the Guitar Hero III DLC pack.

Neversoft / Guitar Hero III: Legends Of Rock DLC / Official / Surfing with the Alien / 1987 / Instrumental Rock

On Expert Lead it scores D 22.80, Calc Tier 7, at or above 87% of the site’s Expert Guitar charts. On Expert Bass it scores D 9.75, Calc Tier 2, at or above 68% of the site’s Expert Bass charts. As a band it places at tier 4, the mean of its two hardest core parts.

Difficulty graph of Surfing with the Alien by Joe Satriani: notes per second, fret changes per second and their sum over time

PartExpertHardMediumEasy
Lead Tier 722.8087%13.8886%7.8469%4.9150%
Bass Tier 29.7568%9.6586%5.8861%4.2556%

Ranked #10 of 77 songs in Guitar Hero III DLC on Expert guitar, and #225 of the 2,257 songs on the site with an Expert guitar chart. 1,088 notes over 3:57, 4.6 a second on average.

Nearby on Expert guitar: harder: Rising Tide by Supper (D 22.83, tier 7), Self-Blinded Eyes by Almanac (D 22.86, tier 7); easier: Bedtime Story by Jake "virt" Kaufman (D 22.77, tier 7), Dopefish Lives by Fearofdark (D 22.76, tier 7)

In Guitar Hero III DLC: harder: Slash Guitar Battle by Slash (D 25.30, tier 8), Heroes of Our Time (Co-op) by Dragonforce (D 26.21, tier 8); easier: Slash Guitar Battle (Co-op) by Slash (D 21.91, tier 7), Soothsayer by Buckethead (D 21.56, tier 7)

More by Joe Satriani: Searching by Joe Satriani (D 27.47, tier 8), Satch Boogie by Joe Satriani (D 25.83, tier 8), Summer Song by Joe Satriani (D 20.83, tier 7), Satch Boogie by Joe Satriani (D 19.02, tier 6)

From Guitar Hero III DLC, 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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