Message in a Bottle by The Police
A Guitar Hero: Smash Hits chart, from the Guitar Hero - Smash Hits pack.
Beenox, Neversoft / Guitar Hero: Smash Hits / Official / Reggatta de Blanc / 1979 / Rock
On Expert Lead it scores D 10.80, Calc Tier 3, at or above 27% of the site’s Expert Guitar charts. On Expert Bass it scores D 7.10, Calc Tier 0, at or above 22% of the site’s Expert Bass charts. On Expert Drums it scores D 18.29, Calc Tier 4, at or above 71% of the site’s Expert Drums charts. On Expert Vocals it scores D 25.31, Calc Tier 4, at or above 71% of the site’s Expert Vocals charts. As a band it places at tier 3, the mean of its two hardest core parts.
| Part | Expert | Hard | Medium | Easy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lead Tier 3 | 10.8027% | 9.3344% | 7.5164% | 5.5872% |
| Bass Tier 0 | 7.1022% | 5.7014% | 5.1843% | 4.5867% |
| Drums Tier 4 | 18.2971% | 16.3581% | 11.4373% | 5.7827% |
| Vocals Tier 4 | 25.3171% | — | — | — |
Ranked #43 of 50 songs in Guitar Hero - Smash Hits on Expert guitar, and #1642 of the 2,257 songs on the site with an Expert guitar chart. 994 notes over 4:36, 3.6 a second on average.
Nearby on Expert guitar: harder: Hard To Handle by The Black Crowes (Steve Ouimette) (D 10.80, tier 3), Billion Dollar Babies by Alice Cooper (WaveGroup) (D 10.80, tier 3); easier: Bad Reputation by Joan Jett (D 10.79, tier 3), Wish by Nine Inch Nails (D 10.78, tier 3)
In Guitar Hero - Smash Hits: harder: Hit Me With Your Best Shot by Pat Benetar (D 10.97, tier 3), Cherry Pie by Warrant (D 11.06, tier 3); easier: Lay Down by Priestess (D 10.62, tier 3), More than a Feeling by Boston (D 10.24, tier 3)
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), Don't Stand So Close to Me by The Police (D 10.59, tier 3), Next to You by The Police (D 8.30, tier 1)
From Guitar Hero - Smash Hits, 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.