L.A. by Elliott Smith
A Guitar Hero 5 chart.
Neversoft / Guitar Hero 5 / Official / Figure 8 / 2000 / Indie Pop
On Expert Lead it scores D 8.28, Calc Tier 1, at or above 6% of the site’s Expert Guitar charts. On Expert Bass it scores D 6.96, Calc Tier 0, at or above 20% of the site’s Expert Bass charts. On Expert Drums it scores D 11.96, Calc Tier 1, at or above 7% of the site’s Expert Drums charts. On Expert Vocals it scores D 23.77, Calc Tier 3, at or above 63% of the site’s Expert Vocals charts. As a band it places at tier 1, the mean of its two hardest core parts.
| Part | Expert | Hard | Medium | Easy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lead Tier 1 | 8.286% | 6.505% | 5.6322% | 4.5036% |
| Bass Tier 0 | 6.9620% | 5.3210% | 4.4622% | 4.4060% |
| Drums Tier 1 | 11.967% | 9.595% | 8.5729% | 4.225% |
| Vocals Tier 3 | 23.7763% | — | — | — |
Ranked #79 of 90 songs in Guitar Hero 5 on Expert guitar, and #2104 of the 2,257 songs on the site with an Expert guitar chart. 479 notes over 3:01, 2.6 a second on average.
Nearby on Expert guitar: harder: Exo-Politics by Muse (D 8.28, tier 1), Sail Your Ship By by Count Zero (D 8.29, tier 1); easier: Our Lips Are Sealed by Go-Go's (D 8.27, tier 1), Float On by Modest Mouse (D 8.26, tier 1)
In Guitar Hero 5: harder: You & Me by Attack! Attack! (D 8.51, tier 2), Hurts So Good by John Mellencamp (D 8.70, tier 2); easier: Ex-Girlfriend by No Doubt (D 8.14, tier 1), Gamma Ray by Beck (D 7.99, tier 1)
From Guitar Hero 5, 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.