Rearranging the Difficulty of Guitar Hero Songs

**silencer** · Joined: 07 Jun 2006 Posts: 93 Location: Orlando, FL

My take, based on expert difficulty:
Opening Licks
I Love Rock and Roll
I Wanna Be Sedated
Smoke on the Water
Thunderkiss '65
Stellar

Axe Grinders
Infected
Unsung
You Got Another Thing Comin'
Sharped Dressed Man
More Than a Feeling

Thrash and Burn
Killer Queen
Hey You
Take Me Out
Take It Off
Iron Man

Return of the Shred
Fat Lip
Ziggy Stardust
Heart Full of Black
Cochise
Symphony of Destruction

Fret Burners
Spanish Castle Magic
Higher Ground
Godzilla
No One Knows
Crossroads

Face Melters
Ace of Spades
Frankenstein
Texas Flood
Cowboys from Hell
Bark at the Moon

To me, Unsung, Infected, You Got Another Thing Comin' are incredibly easy - it's a very steady pace of fairly simple chords. The ones that kill me are fast and not a steady pace - like Ace of Spades, CfH, BatM. The solos in Iron Man and Symphony of Destruction move them into more difficulty categories..
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**Alakaiser** · Joined: 01 Aug 2006 Posts: 4154 Location: Cambridge, MA

You guys are moving up Infected, but keeping I Wanna Be Sedated in the opening licks? Man. I have no trouble at all with Infected(as a matter of fact, it's my best song in the group, and probably in the game), but I Wanna Be Sedated constantly gives me trouble. I can't seem to even 4 star it.

(Yeah, I know. OMG NOOB)

**KetchuponEggs** · Joined: 11 Jul 2006 Posts: 864 Location: Scott AFB, IL

its full of trickery and deceit on expert, if thats the mode you're playing on. so yeah, i'd move that down a notch on expert only.
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**Alakaiser** · Joined: 01 Aug 2006 Posts: 4154 Location: Cambridge, MA

**ES942** · Joined: 02 Mar 2006 Posts: 3445 Location: Snalbans

somke on the water kicked my ass for a couple of weeks on expert, it gave me the most trouble out of any song.

**SixStringSlut** · Joined: 25 Jul 2006 Posts: 244 Location: Ann Arbor, MI

This is an odd thread for me, because right off the bat when I decided to go through 4-starring Expert, the only 3-star I had in Opening Licks was I Wanna Be Sedated. I instantly 5*'d it.

I went up, going for more 4 stars, went back and started going for 5*'s. All of the opening licks fell on the first try (they were already 4*'s the initial run through so I didn't play them when i first got back into this). Then Sharp Dressed Man and Take Me Out gave me hella trouble to 5*. I doubt I'll ever play Take Me Out again... I despise that song.

Other notables that gave me trouble (First 20 songs, 5*) were Killer Queen, Fat Lip, and Cochise. I really didn't think I'd have to go back and practice so hard to get 5*'s on some of these, especially Cochise.

Anyways, since I've gone through and 5*'d the first 20 songs, I've decided to go back to increase my scores so they'll all be above one of my friends, just to brag... and I've found that after playing Texas Flood a billion times and working on 5*ing Godzilla and a whole bunch of the Bonus Songs, I SUCK at the early songs. He's still winning at Iron Man, Stellar, and Ziggy. Granted I haven't tried very hard, but I figured I should shatter my old scores after doing so much of the hard stuff, but I didn't even match some of my older scores, much less beat them by any worth-recording margin.

As for switching difficulty, I think everything is fine just the way it is. It's clear to me that they meant for the 5th song in each category to be harder than the earlier song(s) of the next categories. Like Crossroads to Godzilla, Crossroads is clearly harder, but it was the "boss" of that level, and Godzilla was the training level of the last dungeon. Or something.

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**Azuarc** · Joined: 18 Jul 2006 Posts: 1389 Location: Philadelphia

**dspoonrt** · Joined: 20 Feb 2006 Posts: 2449 Location: Columbus, OH

Iron Man's solo is just as hard if not harder than Infected's, considering it lasts about 4 times as long. I'd say they are about even difficulty-wise. I have no probably keeping Iron Man second tier.
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**Azuarc** · Joined: 18 Jul 2006 Posts: 1389 Location: Philadelphia

And I certainly can't argue with that. It really depends on if you're ranking these by difficulty to clear, to 5-star, or to FC. I'm thinking more towards clear or maybe 5. Iron Man is probably harder in the same way that Symphony of Destruction keeps its position.