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Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple

A Guitar Hero: Smash Hits chart, from the Guitar Hero - Smash Hits pack.

Beenox, Neversoft / Guitar Hero: Smash Hits / Official / Machine Head / 1973 / Rock

On Expert Lead it scores D 22.94, Calc Tier 3, at or above 28% of the site’s Expert Guitar charts. On Expert Bass it scores D 15.35, Calc Tier 2, at or above 63% of the site’s Expert Bass charts. On Expert Drums it scores D 20.76, Calc Tier 5, at or above 85% of the site’s Expert Drums charts. On Expert Vocals it scores D 13.51, Calc Tier 4, at or above 89% of the site’s Expert Vocals charts.

Difficulty graph of Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple: notes per second, fret changes per second and their geometric mean over time

PartExpertHardMediumEasy
Lead Tier 322.9428%15.4437%8.6445%5.6066%
Bass Tier 215.3563%9.9254%7.4575%4.0470%
Drums Tier 520.7685%13.7149%10.5760%6.8649%
Vocals Tier 413.5189%

Ranked #44 of 50 songs in Guitar Hero - Smash Hits on Expert guitar, and #1608 of the 2,257 songs on the site with an Expert guitar chart. 783 notes over 5:25, 2.4 a second on average.

Nearby on Expert guitar: harder: Cadillac Solitario (Live) by Loquillo Y Los Trogloditas (D 22.95, tier 3), Electric Version by The New Pornographers (D 22.97, tier 3); easier: Dream On by Aerosmith (D 22.93, tier 3), Aqualung by Jethro Tull (D 22.92, tier 3)

In Guitar Hero - Smash Hits: harder: Hit Me With Your Best Shot by Pat Benetar (D 23.05, tier 3), Cherry Pie by Warrant (D 23.11, tier 3); easier: More than a Feeling by Boston (D 20.67, tier 3), Killer Queen by Queen (D 18.69, tier 3)

More by Deep Purple: Burn by Deep Purple (D 72.20, tier 6), Highway Star by Deep Purple (D 35.41, tier 4), Space Truckin' by Deep Purple (D 26.09, tier 3), Woman From Tokyo ('99 Remix) by Deep Purple (D 23.45, tier 3), Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple (D 18.67, tier 3)

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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