Ultimate 5-Star Expert Breakdown - A message from Splurj

[Splurj]

Hey guys, it is going to take a while for me to make a 5* breakdown for GH3. At least a few weeks I'd say, leaving El Jefe Hunters and GH3 God status seekers with nowhere to turn. If you want to submit your own to me, PM me, and I'll post it here and give you credit for it if it holds up.

I'd post one sooner, but I need to play the songs a bit more first, before i can assess their difficulties.

thanks a bunch

(passing breakdowns removed--- just play on hard first if you cant pass expert)

GH1 5-Star Expert Breakdown

1. I Love Rock N' Roll - Freebie. Here you go.
2. Hey - A bit fast, but no hard parts.
3. Sail Your Ship by - A breeze aside from the one chord section
4. Stellar -
5. Killer Queen
6. Thuder Kiss 65 - combo the main riff and you are fine.
7. Iron Man - Everything outside the solo is very basic. Solo is short.
8. Unsung
9. Behind the Mask
10. Infected - weird intro and solo
11. Take it Off
12. I Wanna be Sedated - a lot of combo opportunities
13. Even Rats- LOOOONNNG
14. Hey You- Can be annoying for those who don't alt-strum.
15. Eureka, I've Found Love- Above-novice chordwork.
16. More than a Feeling - Tricky fingering for those getting used to orange.
17. Smoke on the Water- Not a lot of sp. Bad solo and outro.
18. Fat Lip- It's pretty fast.
19. Sharp Dressed Man
20. Callout
21. Cochise- Main riff easy to break your combo in.
22. Story of My Love
23. Spanish Castle Magic
24. You Got Another Thing Comin'- chordwork, godly solo, hard outro.
25. Take Me Out - Advanced alternate-strumming required.
26. Ziggy Stardust - Descending scales
27. Heart Full of Black - the 16th notes will hurt you
28. Cavemen Rejoice
29. Higher Ground
30. Symphony of Destruction - Must do excellent out of solo.
31. All of This - Moderately difficult main riff, 2 maniacal solos.
32. Fly on the Wall - Very hard chords, a lot of end wankery.
33. No One Knows- Verse is rough, so is chorus...so is solo.
34. Fire it Up - Yeah the solos are horrible, don't use SP in them though
35. Guitar Hero- Expert chord work, high pace, fast-picking.
36. Godzilla
37. Ace of Spades- The strumming in the verse takes awhile to learn.
38. Farewell Myth
39. Crossroads- 2 lenghty solos.
40. Decontrol - Very fast, with annoying fills, and well...the solo.
41. Get Ready to Rokk - (see above) only harder
42. Cheat on the Church - 3 nasty solos, hard chorwork near the end.
43. Frankenstein
44. The Breaking Wheel - The ultimate test of alt-strumming.
45. Bark at the Moon - A nightmare, but less so than CfH.
46. Cowboys From Hell - An nightmare until you master the main riffs.
47. Texas Flood - Its very hard to keep a multiplier with those damn fills.

GH2 5-Star Expert Breakdown

1. Heart-Shaped Box
2. Red Lottery - Slow-paced, perfect for novice expert players
3. Parasite
4. Soy Bomb - Easy, but a bit faster.
5. Radium Eyes - Easy except for the weird chord part and the brief trill.
6. Surrender - Not so bad, but by no means a gimmie.
7. Mr. Fix-It - Chord changes are a bit annoying
8. Message in a Bottle - aside from solo D, very easy
9. Yes We Can - Overstrumming accidentally can be a problem.
10. Strutter
11. Cherry Pie
12. Laughtrack - Come on, you have a lot of SP to work with here.
13. Mother - My bad, not top 30. You MUST do very well outside solos tho.
14. Can't You Hear Me Knockin'? - very annoying chords
15. John the Fisherman
16. Sweet Child of Mine - Combo well until the solo.
17. Last Child - The recurring BO chord, plus weird solos.
18. Shout at the Devil - Solo and outro aside, just basic chords.
19. Who Was in My Room Last Night? - Sucks unless you can HOPO well.
20. X-Stream - Chord transitions, tempo changes, long length.
21. Search And Destroy - Tricky chord transitions, long-ass solo.
22. Elephant Bones - Fast strumming, odd solo
23. Monkey Wrench - Fast and annoying chords
24. Girlfriend
25. Them Bones - Easy excepting the outro and the YBO zigzag.
26. Collide - The chorus is tough if you cant get the fingering right.
27. Jessica - A nightmare if you cannot HOPO well. Slow paced at least.
28. You Really Got Me - Generous on SP, not too tough.
29. The New Black - The G-G-RB chord thing is tricky to do repeatedly.
30. Trippin on a Hole in a Paper Heart
31. One For the Road- Odd Riff, fast-picking section... careful on SP.
32. Tonight, I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight - Trills, trills, outro sucks too.
33. Carry on Wayward Son - 4 solos, but a lot of easy parts as well.
34. Killing in the Name (Of?) - Solo, noise build , and outro.
35. War Pigs - mini-trills, hard solo.
36. Bad Reputation - Intermediate alt-strumming required.
37. Fall of Pangea - Yeah its long, but its solos are comparatively short.
38. Woman - No easy parts to let you recuperate.
39. Stop
40. Raw Dog - triplets, solo, verse 3, otherwise not too bad.
41. Trogdor - Hard-strumming pattern.
42. FTK- VERY annoying fills.
43. Tattooed Love Boys
44. Madhouse
45. Arterial Black - solo takes up a lot of the song.
46. Push Push (Lady Lightning) - intro, solo, 2 end wankeries.
47. Less Talk More Rokk - Ascending scales are tough for some.
48. Crazy On You
49. Laid to Rest - HOPO's help you tremendously here.
50. Freya
51. Freebird - 23 SP phrases, and only solos C and J are really tough
52. Thunderhorse - galloping triplets.
53. Carry me Home - 'Nuff said.
54. YYZ - Intro is easy, the rest......
55. Rock This Town
56. Beast and the Harlot
57. Institutionalized - Insane verses, tempo change in chorus.
58. Gemini - Hard to keep a combo.
59. The Light that Blinds - Very hard strumming pattern.
60. Hangar 18 - 9 solos, do good on the first 1:30 and the "Bigger riff."
61. Psychobilly Freakout - No easy parts at all.
62. Misirlou - Usually the last one keeping people fom their log
63. Jordan - The main trouble is passing this one.
64. Six- If You can get this, well... help me.

Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80's 5-Star Expert Breakdown

1. We Got the Beat - By a landslide.
2. Shakin' - Simple overall. Use sp during chord sequence.
3. The Warrior
4. Because It's Midnite - FC out of the solo, use sp during solo, its simple.
5. 18 and Life - A few parts are annoying if you don't use HOPO's.
6. Bang Your Head (Metal Health) - Mostly easy chord holds.
7. No One Like You - Super-easy besides brief tough solo.
8. Balls to the Wall.
9. Heat of the Moment - Tough if you can't do triple-chords.
10. Turning Japanese - Tough if you are not good at alt-strumming.
11. Holy Diver
12. I Ran (So Far Away) - Not hard, just a bit fast.
13. Bathroom Wall
14. Lonely is the Night - Chord pattern may trouble some.
15. Synchronicity II
16. Los Angeles- Monotonous and tiring.
17. Only a Lad
18. Hold On Loosely- Lot of weird chord changes, long solo.
19. Ain't Nothin But a GoodTime
20. Police Truck- Fast-paced and Tricky, but not tier-6-worthy.
21. Round And Round- solos.
22. I Wanna Rock
23. Radar Love - A LOT of hard parts.
24. Wrathchild - Highspeed, hard chords.
25. What I Like About You - IT hurts your damn fretting hand....
26. Ballroom Blitz
27. Electric Eye
28. Seventeen- Main riff is very difficult.
29. Caught in a Mosh
30. Play With Me - keeps you on your feet.

[Splurj]

Hey guys, it is going to take a while for me to make a 5* breakdown for GH3. At least a few weeks I'd say, leaving El Jefe Hunters and GH3 God status seekers with nowhere to turn. If you want to submit your own to me, PM me, and I'll post it here and give you credit for it if it holds up.

I'd post one sooner, but I need to play the songs a bit more first, before i can assess their difficulties.

thanks a bunch

(passing breakdowns removed--- just play on hard first if you cant pass expert)

GH1 5-Star Expert Breakdown

1. I Love Rock N' Roll - Freebie. Here you go.
2. Hey - A bit fast, but no hard parts.
3. Sail Your Ship by - A breeze aside from the one chord section
4. Stellar -
5. Killer Queen
6. Thuder Kiss 65 - combo the main riff and you are fine.
7. Iron Man - Everything outside the solo is very basic. Solo is short.
8. Unsung
9. Behind the Mask
10. Infected - weird intro and solo
11. Take it Off
12. I Wanna be Sedated - a lot of combo opportunities
13. Even Rats- LOOOONNNG
14. Hey You- Can be annoying for those who don't alt-strum.
15. Eureka, I've Found Love- Above-novice chordwork.
16. More than a Feeling - Tricky fingering for those getting used to orange.
17. Smoke on the Water- Not a lot of sp. Bad solo and outro.
18. Fat Lip- It's pretty fast.
19. Sharp Dressed Man
20. Callout
21. Cochise- Main riff easy to break your combo in.
22. Story of My Love
23. Spanish Castle Magic
24. You Got Another Thing Comin'- chordwork, godly solo, hard outro.
25. Take Me Out - Advanced alternate-strumming required.
26. Ziggy Stardust - Descending scales
27. Heart Full of Black - the 16th notes will hurt you
28. Cavemen Rejoice
29. Higher Ground
30. Symphony of Destruction - Must do excellent out of solo.
31. All of This - Moderately difficult main riff, 2 maniacal solos.
32. Fly on the Wall - Very hard chords, a lot of end wankery.
33. No One Knows- Verse is rough, so is chorus...so is solo.
34. Fire it Up - Yeah the solos are horrible, don't use SP in them though
35. Guitar Hero- Expert chord work, high pace, fast-picking.
36. Godzilla
37. Ace of Spades- The strumming in the verse takes awhile to learn.
38. Farewell Myth
39. Crossroads- 2 lenghty solos.
40. Decontrol - Very fast, with annoying fills, and well...the solo.
41. Get Ready to Rokk - (see above) only harder
42. Cheat on the Church - 3 nasty solos, hard chorwork near the end.
43. Frankenstein
44. The Breaking Wheel - The ultimate test of alt-strumming.
45. Bark at the Moon - A nightmare, but less so than CfH.
46. Cowboys From Hell - An nightmare until you master the main riffs.
47. Texas Flood - Its very hard to keep a multiplier with those damn fills.

GH2 5-Star Expert Breakdown

1. Heart-Shaped Box
2. Red Lottery - Slow-paced, perfect for novice expert players
3. Parasite
4. Soy Bomb - Easy, but a bit faster.
5. Radium Eyes - Easy except for the weird chord part and the brief trill.
6. Surrender - Not so bad, but by no means a gimmie.
7. Mr. Fix-It - Chord changes are a bit annoying
8. Message in a Bottle - aside from solo D, very easy
9. Yes We Can - Overstrumming accidentally can be a problem.
10. Strutter
11. Cherry Pie
12. Laughtrack - Come on, you have a lot of SP to work with here.
13. Mother - My bad, not top 30. You MUST do very well outside solos tho.
14. Can't You Hear Me Knockin'? - very annoying chords
15. John the Fisherman
16. Sweet Child of Mine - Combo well until the solo.
17. Last Child - The recurring BO chord, plus weird solos.
18. Shout at the Devil - Solo and outro aside, just basic chords.
19. Who Was in My Room Last Night? - Sucks unless you can HOPO well.
20. X-Stream - Chord transitions, tempo changes, long length.
21. Search And Destroy - Tricky chord transitions, long-ass solo.
22. Elephant Bones - Fast strumming, odd solo
23. Monkey Wrench - Fast and annoying chords
24. Girlfriend
25. Them Bones - Easy excepting the outro and the YBO zigzag.
26. Collide - The chorus is tough if you cant get the fingering right.
27. Jessica - A nightmare if you cannot HOPO well. Slow paced at least.
28. You Really Got Me - Generous on SP, not too tough.
29. The New Black - The G-G-RB chord thing is tricky to do repeatedly.
30. Trippin on a Hole in a Paper Heart
31. One For the Road- Odd Riff, fast-picking section... careful on SP.
32. Tonight, I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight - Trills, trills, outro sucks too.
33. Carry on Wayward Son - 4 solos, but a lot of easy parts as well.
34. Killing in the Name (Of?) - Solo, noise build , and outro.
35. War Pigs - mini-trills, hard solo.
36. Bad Reputation - Intermediate alt-strumming required.
37. Fall of Pangea - Yeah its long, but its solos are comparatively short.
38. Woman - No easy parts to let you recuperate.
39. Stop
40. Raw Dog - triplets, solo, verse 3, otherwise not too bad.
41. Trogdor - Hard-strumming pattern.
42. FTK- VERY annoying fills.
43. Tattooed Love Boys
44. Madhouse
45. Arterial Black - solo takes up a lot of the song.
46. Push Push (Lady Lightning) - intro, solo, 2 end wankeries.
47. Less Talk More Rokk - Ascending scales are tough for some.
48. Crazy On You
49. Laid to Rest - HOPO's help you tremendously here.
50. Freya
51. Freebird - 23 SP phrases, and only solos C and J are really tough
52. Thunderhorse - galloping triplets.
53. Carry me Home - 'Nuff said.
54. YYZ - Intro is easy, the rest......
55. Rock This Town
56. Beast and the Harlot
57. Institutionalized - Insane verses, tempo change in chorus.
58. Gemini - Hard to keep a combo.
59. The Light that Blinds - Very hard strumming pattern.
60. Hangar 18 - 9 solos, do good on the first 1:30 and the "Bigger riff."
61. Psychobilly Freakout - No easy parts at all.
62. Misirlou - Usually the last one keeping people fom their log
63. Jordan - The main trouble is passing this one.
64. Six- If You can get this, well... help me.

Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80's 5-Star Expert Breakdown

1. We Got the Beat - By a landslide.
2. Shakin' - Simple overall. Use sp during chord sequence.
3. The Warrior
4. Because It's Midnite - FC out of the solo, use sp during solo, its simple.
5. 18 and Life - A few parts are annoying if you don't use HOPO's.
6. Bang Your Head (Metal Health) - Mostly easy chord holds.
7. No One Like You - Super-easy besides brief tough solo.
8. Balls to the Wall.
9. Heat of the Moment - Tough if you can't do triple-chords.
10. Turning Japanese - Tough if you are not good at alt-strumming.
11. Holy Diver
12. I Ran (So Far Away) - Not hard, just a bit fast.
13. Bathroom Wall
14. Lonely is the Night - Chord pattern may trouble some.
15. Synchronicity II
16. Los Angeles- Monotonous and tiring.
17. Only a Lad
18. Hold On Loosely- Lot of weird chord changes, long solo.
19. Ain't Nothin But a GoodTime
20. Police Truck- Fast-paced and Tricky, but not tier-6-worthy.
21. Round And Round- solos.
22. I Wanna Rock
23. Radar Love - A LOT of hard parts.
24. Wrathchild - Highspeed, hard chords.
25. What I Like About You - IT hurts your damn fretting hand....
26. Ballroom Blitz
27. Electric Eye
28. Seventeen- Main riff is very difficult.
29. Caught in a Mosh
30. Play With Me - keeps you on your feet.

[Barbaloot]

Do you really find Crazy on You to be harder to 5-star than Gemini? I'm pretty sure I 5-starred CoY before I 4-starred Gemini. Just use SP in the verses.
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[Barbaloot]

Do you really find Crazy on You to be harder to 5-star than Gemini? I'm pretty sure I 5-starred CoY before I 4-starred Gemini. Just use SP in the verses.
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[Ubermode]

i find CoY one of the hardest songs in the game to 5* lol.

[Ubermode]

i find CoY one of the hardest songs in the game to 5* lol.

[PotatoHandle]

It's about right, but my biggest comment wold be that Freebird, which I can 6-star, is higher than gemini, which I can barely 4-star. I'd personally slide Gemini down a few notches. See what some others think though.
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[PotatoHandle]

It's about right, but my biggest comment wold be that Freebird, which I can 6-star, is higher than gemini, which I can barely 4-star. I'd personally slide Gemini down a few notches. See what some others think though.
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[Benedettosoxfan]

it looks good but there's no way thunderhorse is that low and Instituitionalized and Hangar 18 are way easier than CMH and BATH in my opinion.
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[Benedettosoxfan]

it looks good but there's no way thunderhorse is that low and Instituitionalized and Hangar 18 are way easier than CMH and BATH in my opinion.
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[Chuckleslovakian]

Mother is way too high. It should be in the first 15 at least. Sure you have to do well outside the solo, but it is super easy to do so. Also like you said, Psychobilly has no easy parts while Hangar 18 has the first half of the song.

[Chuckleslovakian]

Mother is way too high. It should be in the first 15 at least. Sure you have to do well outside the solo, but it is super easy to do so. Also like you said, Psychobilly has no easy parts while Hangar 18 has the first half of the song.

[jesse0986]

First of all, kudos for this list. I've been thinking about doing something similar for a long time now, I think it's actually much more useful than an FC list, since most people in this forum are looking for five-star help.

I'm just gonna pluck the ones I have issues with.

31. Mother - This one's a little too high. I could see maybe 20-25 (I had trouble with it too) but once you figure out everything besides the solo, it's not bad at all.

36. War Pigs - A little too high as well. There's too much easy stuff here outside of the solos. Maybe 30-ish.

39. Tonight, I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight - Too high. I suck royally at the trills but I still hit everything else in the song and I can still six-star it. I'd put it around 20-25.

40. Less Talk More Rokk - Maybe I just suck at this song, but this was my 60th five-star on Expert. 60th!

43. - Fall of Pangea - Definitely not the 43rd hardest. Anyone who's five-starred it on Hard can five-star it on Expert, too. I'd move it down to 30-35.

53. Freebird - I think this one's easier than Freya, Gemini, and Thunderhorse. If you hit everything in the intro, you can get 140K or more, which essentially means you've got 1500 notes to get 200K. Not really that hard.

52. Gemini - Too low. I'd move it up to 57-60.

55. Rock This Town - Also too low. Maybe it's just me but I put more work into this song than any other song for my Log (and that includes everything in the last two tiers). A total bitch of a song. I'd probably put it right at 59-60.
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[jesse0986]

First of all, kudos for this list. I've been thinking about doing something similar for a long time now, I think it's actually much more useful than an FC list, since most people in this forum are looking for five-star help.

I'm just gonna pluck the ones I have issues with.

31. Mother - This one's a little too high. I could see maybe 20-25 (I had trouble with it too) but once you figure out everything besides the solo, it's not bad at all.

36. War Pigs - A little too high as well. There's too much easy stuff here outside of the solos. Maybe 30-ish.

39. Tonight, I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight - Too high. I suck royally at the trills but I still hit everything else in the song and I can still six-star it. I'd put it around 20-25.

40. Less Talk More Rokk - Maybe I just suck at this song, but this was my 60th five-star on Expert. 60th!

43. - Fall of Pangea - Definitely not the 43rd hardest. Anyone who's five-starred it on Hard can five-star it on Expert, too. I'd move it down to 30-35.

53. Freebird - I think this one's easier than Freya, Gemini, and Thunderhorse. If you hit everything in the intro, you can get 140K or more, which essentially means you've got 1500 notes to get 200K. Not really that hard.

52. Gemini - Too low. I'd move it up to 57-60.

55. Rock This Town - Also too low. Maybe it's just me but I put more work into this song than any other song for my Log (and that includes everything in the last two tiers). A total bitch of a song. I'd probably put it right at 59-60.
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[blob]

I dunno I 5* Rock this Town pretty easily, Misirlou and Six should be last, Jordan isnt as hard to 5* as Misirlou.

PBFo is harder than H18.
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[blob]

I dunno I 5* Rock this Town pretty easily, Misirlou and Six should be last, Jordan isnt as hard to 5* as Misirlou.

PBFo is harder than H18.
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[jesse0986]

Meh, mebbe. But I got CMH, BatH, and PF before I got RTT. I'm confident too that I could've gotten a few others before RTT if I'd played them as much (RTT's probably my favorite song to play, despite how frustrated I was getting because I couldn't five-star it for the life of me).
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[jesse0986]

Meh, mebbe. But I got CMH, BatH, and PF before I got RTT. I'm confident too that I could've gotten a few others before RTT if I'd played them as much (RTT's probably my favorite song to play, despite how frustrated I was getting because I couldn't five-star it for the life of me).
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[bjwdestroyer]

PBFO should be higher than Hangar 18. Trust me.

Both RTT and BatH should be higher than CMH, because CMH doesn't even require you to combo the riff.

Free Bird should be lower. 'Nuff said.

Thunderhorse, if anything, should be higher than Freya. Sure, Freya hurts, but galloping owns me.

Both YYZ and FTK should be a lot lower imo.

Thats enough from me for now

[bjwdestroyer]

PBFO should be higher than Hangar 18. Trust me.

Both RTT and BatH should be higher than CMH, because CMH doesn't even require you to combo the riff.

Free Bird should be lower. 'Nuff said.

Thunderhorse, if anything, should be higher than Freya. Sure, Freya hurts, but galloping owns me.

Both YYZ and FTK should be a lot lower imo.

Thats enough from me for now

[pielily]

Couple of things here seem out of place for me:

Too low
Laid to Rest
Less Talk More Rokk
Thunderhorse
Rock This Town


Too high
Hangar 18
Institutionalized
Crazy on You
Woman

Again, just from my experiences, your mileage may vary.

[pielily]

Couple of things here seem out of place for me:

Too low
Laid to Rest
Less Talk More Rokk
Thunderhorse
Rock This Town


Too high
Hangar 18
Institutionalized
Crazy on You
Woman

Again, just from my experiences, your mileage may vary.

[DominAzura]

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[MasterBlaster]

Sweet list! I wish I had had this while I was hunting my Log....
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[MasterBlaster]

Sweet list! I wish I had had this while I was hunting my Log....
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[Splurj]

Okay I fixed a few things. I have been over the 5-star hump for a while and got out of touch with less experienced players. Thanks for your opinions. Now, the list is much better. Only ones I'm confused about now are Woman, Freebird, and PP(LL). I'll wait awhile to see mass opinion before I re-edit.

[Splurj]

Okay I fixed a few things. I have been over the 5-star hump for a while and got out of touch with less experienced players. Thanks for your opinions. Now, the list is much better. Only ones I'm confused about now are Woman, Freebird, and PP(LL). I'll wait awhile to see mass opinion before I re-edit.