Sultans Of Swing by Dire Straits
A Guitar Hero 5 chart.
Neversoft / Guitar Hero 5 / Official / Dire Straits / 1978 / Rock
On Expert Lead it scores D 15.92, Calc Tier 5, at or above 64% of the site’s Expert Guitar charts. On Expert Bass it scores D 7.72, Calc Tier 1, at or above 32% of the site’s Expert Bass charts. On Expert Drums it scores D 21.26, Calc Tier 5, at or above 87% of the site’s Expert Drums charts. On Expert Vocals it scores D 20.12, Calc Tier 2, at or above 41% of the site’s Expert Vocals charts. As a band it places at tier 5, the mean of its two hardest core parts.
| Part | Expert | Hard | Medium | Easy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lead Tier 5 | 15.9264% | 12.4579% | 8.0873% | 5.8676% |
| Bass Tier 1 | 7.7232% | 7.4050% | 6.7782% | 4.7672% |
| Drums Tier 5 | 21.2687% | 18.8295% | 11.5374% | 7.6261% |
| Vocals Tier 2 | 20.1241% | — | — | — |
Ranked #10 of 90 songs in Guitar Hero 5 on Expert guitar, and #759 of the 2,257 songs on the site with an Expert guitar chart. 1,495 notes over 5:59, 4.2 a second on average.
Nearby on Expert guitar: harder: Somebody Get Me A Doctor by Van Halen (D 15.92, tier 5), All Hail Shadow by Magna-fi (D 15.97, tier 5); easier: Fall Of Pangea by Valient Thorr (D 15.91, tier 5), Bad Apple Medley by Various Artists (D 15.90, tier 5)
In Guitar Hero 5: harder: Black Dog (Live) by Led Zeppelin (D 16.24, tier 5), 2 Minutes To Midnight by Iron Maiden (D 16.49, tier 5); easier: Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting) by Elton John (D 15.82, tier 5), American Girl by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers (D 15.77, tier 5)
More by Dire Straits: Money for Nothing by Dire Straits (D 12.60, tier 4), Walk of Life by Dire Straits (D 11.94, 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.