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Message In A Bottle by The Police (WaveGroup)

A Guitar Hero II chart.

Harmonix / Guitar Hero II / Official / Reggatta de Blanc / 1979 / Reaggae Rock

On Expert Lead it scores D 12.96, Calc Tier 4, at or above 46% of the site’s Expert Guitar charts. On Expert Bass it scores D 6.42, Calc Tier 0, at or above 13% of the site’s Expert Bass charts. As a band it places at tier 2, the mean of its two hardest core parts.

Difficulty graph of Message In A Bottle by The Police (WaveGroup): notes per second, fret changes per second and their sum over time

PartExpertHardMediumEasy
Lead Tier 412.9646%10.3659%7.5865%3.8722%
Bass Tier 06.4213%6.4227%6.4275%4.9175%

Ranked #48 of 91 songs in Guitar Hero II on Expert guitar, and #1189 of the 2,257 songs on the site with an Expert guitar chart. 977 notes over 4:57, 3.3 a second on average.

Nearby on Expert guitar: harder: Ballroom Blitz by Sweet (WaveGroup) (D 12.96, tier 4), Ain't Nothin But A Good Time by Poison (WaveGroup) (D 12.97, tier 4); easier: Search and Destroy by Iggy Pop and the Stooges (WaveGroup) (D 12.96, tier 4), Schism by Tool (D 12.95, tier 4)

In Guitar Hero II: harder: Kicked To The Curb by Noble Rot (D 13.06, tier 4), War Pigs by Black Sabbath (WaveGroup) (D 13.13, tier 4); easier: Search and Destroy by Iggy Pop and the Stooges (WaveGroup) (D 12.96, tier 4), Drink Up by Ounce of Self (D 12.78, tier 4)

More by The Police (WaveGroup): Synchronicity II by The Police (WaveGroup) (D 14.07, tier 4)

From Guitar Hero II, 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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