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Under Pressure by Queen & David Bowie

A Guitar Hero 5 chart.

Neversoft / Guitar Hero 5 / Official / Hot Space / 2002 / Rock

On Expert Lead it scores D 8.77, Calc Tier 2, at or above 9% of the site’s Expert Guitar charts. On Expert Bass it scores D 7.53, Calc Tier 1, at or above 29% of the site’s Expert Bass charts. On Expert Drums it scores D 15.32, Calc Tier 3, at or above 38% of the site’s Expert Drums charts. On Expert Vocals it scores D 29.93, Calc Tier 5, at or above 87% of the site’s Expert Vocals charts. As a band it places at tier 2, the mean of its two hardest core parts.

Difficulty graph of Under Pressure by Queen & David Bowie: notes per second, fret changes per second and their sum over time

PartExpertHardMediumEasy
Lead Tier 28.779%6.425%5.0712%3.7018%
Bass Tier 17.5329%5.6614%4.5625%3.9948%
Drums Tier 315.3238%11.5419%7.0611%3.552%
Vocals Tier 529.9387%———

Ranked #76 of 90 songs in Guitar Hero 5 on Expert guitar, and #2044 of the 2,257 songs on the site with an Expert guitar chart. 496 notes over 3:43, 2.2 a second on average.

Nearby on Expert guitar: harder: Killing Loneliness by HIM (D 8.77, tier 2), Dial Tones by As It Is (D 8.77, tier 2); easier: You Belong With Me by Taylor Swift (D 8.77, tier 2), The Nature Of Reality by Oasis (D 8.76, tier 2)

In Guitar Hero 5: harder: Steady As She Goes by The Raconteurs (D 8.89, tier 2), Feel Good Inc. by Gorillaz (D 8.91, tier 2); easier: Hurts So Good by John Mellencamp (D 8.70, tier 2), You & Me by Attack! Attack! (D 8.51, tier 2)

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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