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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 24.08, Calc Tier 3, at or above 31% of the site’s Expert Guitar charts. On Expert Bass it scores D 8.30, Calc Tier 1, at or above 26% 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 9.06, Calc Tier 3, at or above 59% of the site’s Expert Vocals charts.

Difficulty graph of Message in a Bottle by The Police: notes per second, fret changes per second and their geometric mean over time

PartExpertHardMediumEasy
Lead Tier 324.0831%17.3947%11.2364%6.2373%
Bass Tier 18.3026%5.1217%4.4238%3.7564%
Drums Tier 418.2971%16.3581%11.4373%5.7827%
Vocals Tier 39.0659%

Ranked #39 of 50 songs in Guitar Hero - Smash Hits on Expert guitar, and #1546 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: Paranoid by Black Sabbath (Steve Ouimette) (D 24.10, tier 3), Look Good in Leather by Cody ChesnuTT (D 24.12, tier 3); easier: Dashboard by Modest Mouse (D 24.05, tier 3), Ramblin' Man by The Allman Brothers Band (D 24.05, tier 3)

In Guitar Hero - Smash Hits: harder: Them Bones by Alice in Chains (D 25.14, tier 3), Hey You by The Exies (D 25.82, tier 3); easier: Lay Down by Priestess (D 23.92, tier 3), Rock and Roll All Night ft. Steve Ouimette by KISS (D 23.80, tier 3)

More by The Police: Demolition Man (Live) by The Police (D 43.28, tier 4), So Lonely by The Police (D 30.68, tier 4), Don't Stand So Close to Me by The Police (D 24.37, tier 3), Next to You by The Police (D 13.51, tier 2)

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.

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