Pivot Thread - FC Breakdown Project - Question 14C

**JosephL** · Posted: Sun May 10, 2015 5:03 pm Post subject:

(Paranoid is harder than all)^3
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Current questions:

Pivot Question 5B: Please place Paranoid (GH3) relative to these Guitar Hero 5 songs. Do not adjust the order of the following songs:
Make It Wit Chu
In the Meantime
Bleed American
Blue Day
Blue Orchid

Pivot Question 6B: Please place Paranoid (GH3) relative to these Band Hero and DJ Hero songs (Band Hero unless otherwise noted). Do not adjust the order of the following songs:
Back Again
The Adventure
Like Whoa
Angels of the Silence
Hands Down

Pivot Question 7B: Please place Paranoid (GH3) relative to these Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock songs. Do not adjust the order of the following songs:
What Do I Get?
Stray Cat Blues
Theme from Spider-Man
Machinehead
Uprising
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**RobGHH** · Joined: 01 Feb 2012 Posts: 846 Location: UK

Paranoid is harder than Blue Orchid for sure. Not much to say here.
It's also harder than Hands Down - there's not anything difficult in HD, Paranoid has something at least noteworthy.

For GHWOR, however, I would say Paranoid goes just below Machinehead. This is because the constant strumming riff makes misses more likely, also it's a fair bit longer.
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**ChihiroShirei** · Joined: 28 Oct 2014 Posts: 238

Harder than the next five from GH5 and Band Hero, certainly.

The strumming bit at the end of Uprising was deceptively difficult to me, and Machinehead is just long. It's very difficult to compare, but I'd agree and say just below Machinehead.

Edit: One slightly pedantic note-- I believe the song's name is "Angels of the Silences", yet it's called "Angels of the Silence" in both the BH thread and here.

**Midnight-Rider** · Posted: Mon May 11, 2015 2:56 pm Post subject:

Yeah, harder than everything but Machinehead and Uprising.
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**greenbaymackey** · Joined: 20 Apr 2010 Posts: 925 Location: Utah

**JosephL** · Posted: Sun May 17, 2015 8:31 pm Post subject:

Question 5B
Make It Wit Chu
In the Meantime
Bleed American
Blue Day
Blue Orchid
Paranoid
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Question 6B
Back Again
The Adventure
Like Whoa
Angels of the Silences
Hands Down
Paranoid
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Question 7B
Theme from Spider-Man
Paranoid
Machinehead
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Current questions:

Pivot Question 5C: Please place Paranoid (GH3) relative to these Guitar Hero 5 songs. Do not adjust the order of the following songs:
Judith
The Rock Show
Seven
Send a Little Love Token
Six Days a Week

Pivot Question 6C: Please place Paranoid (GH3) relative to these Band Hero and DJ Hero songs (Band Hero unless otherwise noted). Do not adjust the order of the following songs:
Santa Monica
Ocean Avenue
When I'm Gone
Bad Reputation
Honky Tonk Woman

**RobGHH** · Joined: 01 Feb 2012 Posts: 846 Location: UK

Paranoid is slightly easier than Six Days A Week, some gallops in the riffs can pose some threat as a combo breaker.
Harder than the BH lot, all HTW has to offer are some hammer-ons that aren't strictly demanding at all.
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**ChihiroShirei** · Joined: 28 Oct 2014 Posts: 238

Easier than the entire GH5 list. Outside of The Rock Show, all of those songs gave me trouble after I already had Paranoid.

Harder than the BH list. Not much to say.

**Midnight-Rider** · Posted: Sun May 17, 2015 9:53 pm Post subject:

Easier than the GH5 songs (finally...), harder than the BH songs (same ol', same ol'...).

**greenbaymackey** · Joined: 20 Apr 2010 Posts: 925 Location: Utah

Judith
The Rock Show
Seven
Send a Little Love Token
Paranoid... I guess?
Six Days a Week

Santa Monica
Ocean Avenue
When I'm Gone
Bad Reputation
Honky Tonk Women
Paranoid

...and as long as we're being pedantic, the Rolling Stones' song is actually called Honky Tonk Women rather than Honky Tonk Woman.

**ChihiroShirei** · Joined: 28 Oct 2014 Posts: 238

Judith, in my opinion, is just filled with awkward chords, and I'm also one of the people that found Seven to be a choking mess at that level. I can't really see how Paranoid outranks anything in this group.

**Midnight-Rider** · Posted: Wed May 20, 2015 1:01 am Post subject:

**greenbaymackey** · Joined: 20 Apr 2010 Posts: 925 Location: Utah

The thing is, we're not voting on adjusting the GH5 list. I think we can agree that Judith is way too low on the GH5 list, but if you look past the weirdly misplaced Judith you get The Rock Show and Seven. I refuse to believe that either of those songs are harder than Paranoid. Send a Little Love Token is close because of chord changes. Maybe I'm overrating Paranoid, but I had a hard time with that solo when I was at that level trying to get the FC.

**Midnight-Rider** · Posted: Wed May 20, 2015 2:39 am Post subject:

**ChihiroShirei** · Joined: 28 Oct 2014 Posts: 238

I'll switch to just below Six Days A Week. Actually playing these songs makes me realize that Judith is the only one I really find to be difficult compared to Paranoid. It would be a lot easier to magically put Judith a little higher than to fix the pivot, if it came down to that.