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Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana

A Guitar Hero 5 chart.

Neversoft / Guitar Hero 5 / Official / Nevermind / 1991 / Grunge

On Expert Lead it scores D 11.12, Calc Tier 3, at or above 30% of the site’s Expert Guitar charts. On Expert Bass it scores D 7.49, Calc Tier 1, at or above 28% of the site’s Expert Bass charts. On Expert Drums it scores D 15.63, Calc Tier 3, at or above 42% of the site’s Expert Drums charts. On Expert Vocals it scores D 20.78, Calc Tier 3, at or above 45% of the site’s Expert Vocals charts. As a band it places at tier 3, the mean of its two hardest core parts.

Difficulty graph of Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana: notes per second, fret changes per second and their sum over time

PartExpertHardMediumEasy
Lead Tier 311.1230%8.3327%6.9651%4.6140%
Bass Tier 17.4928%6.1121%5.3949%4.2455%
Drums Tier 315.6342%13.4645%10.7964%6.3840%
Vocals Tier 320.7845%———

Ranked #47 of 90 songs in Guitar Hero 5 on Expert guitar, and #1567 of the 2,257 songs on the site with an Expert guitar chart. 854 notes over 4:51, 2.9 a second on average.

Nearby on Expert guitar: harder: The Joker by Steve Miller Band (D 11.13, tier 3), The Mixture by Volumes (D 11.15, tier 3); easier: Vagabond by Vildhjarta (D 11.12, tier 3), Wonderwall by Ryan Adams (D 11.12, tier 3)

In Guitar Hero 5: harder: Maiden, Mother & Crone by The Sword (D 11.31, tier 3), Bleed American by Jimmy Eat World (D 11.33, tier 3); easier: Nearly Lost You by Screaming Trees (D 11.11, tier 3), The Rock Show by Blink 182 (D 10.98, tier 3)

More by Nirvana: Stay Away by Nirvana (D 12.33, tier 4), Negative Creep by Nirvana (D 11.54, tier 3), Drain You by Nirvana (D 11.53, tier 3), You Know You're Right by Nirvana (D 10.73, tier 3), Very Ape by Nirvana (D 10.67, tier 3)

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.

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