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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 85.89, Calc Tier 6, at or above 85% of the site’s Expert Guitar charts. On Expert Bass it scores D 15.24, Calc Tier 2, at or above 62% of the site’s Expert Bass charts.

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

PartExpertHardMediumEasy
Lead Tier 685.8985%35.7085%11.7567%4.3245%
Bass Tier 215.2462%14.7281%6.2462%1.4822%

Ranked #10 of 77 songs in Guitar Hero III DLC on Expert guitar, and #285 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: Goddess Gagged by Protest the Hero (D 86.00, tier 6), From the Sky by Protest the Hero (D 86.04, tier 6); easier: Take a Hike by tv room (D 85.84, tier 6), Night Crossing (feat. Matt Heafy) by Bleed from Within (D 85.57, tier 6)

In Guitar Hero III DLC: harder: Heroes of Our Time (Co-op) by Dragonforce (D 107.30, tier 7), Operation Ground and Pound (Co-op) by Dragonforce (D 112.43, tier 7); easier: Slash Guitar Battle (Co-op) by Slash (D 85.04, tier 6), Putting Holes in Happiness (Nick Zinner Remix) by Marilyn Manson (D 76.82, tier 6)

More by Joe Satriani: Satch Boogie by Joe Satriani (D 126.23, tier 7), Searching by Joe Satriani (D 113.72, tier 7), Summer Song by Joe Satriani (D 82.82, tier 6), Satch Boogie by Joe Satriani (D 75.11, 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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