Band Hero Guitar FC Breakdown

**hiddenzombie013** · Joined: 10 Aug 2007 Posts: 1766 Location: Tampa, FL

I've been playing Band Hero a lot lately, and I've been trying to work on a breakdown of songs in the order of most difficult FC. In addition, each song has a description as to why it is placed where it is. Here's what I have so far:

Guitar Fc Breakdown:
1. Do You Really Want To Hurt Me - Absolutely nothing remotely challenging
2. ABC - Super easy song
3. Put Your Records On - Nothing challenging. There's less than 300 notes here.
4. L.E.S. Artises - I can't recall anything of note here
5. Rock Star - It's kind of long, but that's it
6. She Will Be Loved - Very simple
7. Warwick Avenue - Not much to this
8. Wannabe - Quite basic
9. So Yesterday - Simple chordy song
10. Dirty Little Secret - A bit fast, and the solo could possibly trip you up
11. Beautiful Soul - Your fingers move around a lot, but that's it
12. Our Lips Are Sealed - The multi-chords might be a bit tricky for some
13. Love Story - Noithing memorable
14. You Belong With Me - A lot of three-note cords, but that's it
15. When I'm Gone - Pretty basic
16. Take What You Take - Simple riff, as is the rest of the song
17. Lips of an Angel - Solo could trip you up
18. Oh Pretty Woman - Main riff and chorus might throw you off
19. Bring Me to Life - The first slightly tricky strumming patterns you may encounter
20. Take Back the City - Just your basic chord-filled song
21. Happy Together - Slightly tricky considering how early in the game it is
22. Love is a Battlefield - Overall a medium-difficulty level song
23. Whip It - You have to move your fingers a lot, but nothing hard
24. Steal My Kisses - Fun strumming pattern, possibly easy to mess up
25. Let's Dance - Solo could easily mess you up
26. Hands Down - One of the first strum-heavy songs
27. Pictures of You - Nothing standout
28. Back Again - Pretty generic
29. Angels of the Silences - Again, nothing memorable
30. Don't Speak - A bit long, and some chord changes are kind of tricky
31. The Adventure - A lot of strumming
32. Hang Me Up to Dry - Some long alt-strumming phrases
33. Santa Monica - Bits of alt-strumming throughout, and a couple tricky Ho/Po bits
34. Like Whoa - A long alt-strumming part in the middle, but the rest is easy
35. Sugar, We're Goin Down - Just lots of chords and strumming
36. Bad Reputation - Chances are, you'll have to alt-strum to get this one
37. Ocean Avenue - Fast paced strumming
38. A Million Ways - This will either be easy or hard for you. It's all about the strumming pattern
39. Just A Girl - Yet another song with tricky alt-strumming
40. Gasoline - Some tricky strum patterns and Ho/Po bits
41. Honky Tonk Women - Some of it is just awkward to hit in general
42. Believe - The solo can easily mess you up
43. If You Could Only See - The strumming is a bit hard to get used to
44. Mr. Roboto - Awkward Ho/Po chords
45. Kids - Tricky main riff
46. Walking on Sunshine - Tricky strumming patterns
47. Fascination - Some odd strumming parts
48. Turn Off the Light - Some tricky Ho/Pos and a bit of fast strummiing
49. The Impression That I Get - Strumming and fingering may be hard to get down
50. American Pie - 8 and 1/2 minutes long, with a few tricky Ho/Pos. Choke city.
51. In a Big Country - Just pretty tricky all around
52. Naive - Tricky strumming patterns
53. Every Rose Has Its Thorn - One hard part in solo, plus a lot of Ho/Pos in verses
54. Black Horse and the Cherry Tree - Tricky strumming patterns
55. Take a Picture - Over 6 minutes of alt-strumming, but not particularly hard. Huge chokefest.
56. Lifeline - Main riff is only hard-ish part, but it repeats throughout the song
57. Kung Fu Fighting - Strumming is hard to keep right
58. I Heard It Through the Grapevine - Tricky hammer-on chords and the longest trill ever
59. Y.M.C.A. - Random hard parts
60. Paralyzer - Awkward verses
61. Picture to Burn - Some really hard to hit banjo parts
62 .Rio - Sax solo part is a bit tricky, but the strumming after is retarded
63. You Had Me - Ho/Pos constantly
64. Black Cat - One of the hardest solos in the game
65. I Want You to Want Me (Live) - Just all around hard to hit in a lot of it, especially the solos
All criticism is appreciated!
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**StormEagle** · Joined: 26 Apr 2009 Posts: 636 Location: Germany

What? Is YMCA really that hard?
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**ElementOfZero** · Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 5:18 pm Post subject:

60) Impression that I get - alternating chord/single notes
61) Lifeline - all the strumming/HOPOS give many places to miss
62)Heard it Through The Grapevine - Hammeron chords, trill
63)Black Cat - purple notes
64)Paralyzer - verse 1 (to me it's the hardest to hit section)
65)I Want You To Want Me (Live) - solo 2 , and at the break there's an easy to miss guitar riff. After that it goes back into triplets and another kinda awkward strumming.

my take on the hardest.
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**Wizi1337** · Joined: 17 Mar 2009 Posts: 64

Rio and it's bullshit strumming cant be 37 at all, YMCA is easy.. hardest is probably I want you to want me (one of my missing FCs, Rio is the other one -.-)

**Warhiem** · Joined: 22 Sep 2009 Posts: 1331

YMCA needs to be down. I Want You to Want Me is the hardest, Black Cat is up there but not at the top (the solo isn't that bad).

**hiddenzombie013** · Joined: 10 Aug 2007 Posts: 1766 Location: Tampa, FL

Ok, I re-did the list. I added in the missing songs, added descriptions, and rearranged a few songs.
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Finish all Drums/Pro Drums goals [ ]

**Warhiem** · Joined: 22 Sep 2009 Posts: 1331

I'd switch Rio and Black Cat, (well move You Had Me down to where Rio was), Black cat only has one really miss-able part in the solo, while Rio has the sax solo and odd strumming.

**thenewkidaw71** · Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 2:25 am Post subject:

this game must be really easy if ymca is the 7th hardest, i watched a vid for it and it looked really easy even for me and im not that good
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Ontwikseltsaar wrote:

These charts look awfully fun so far. But hey, you can't spell Guiftaru Henro without f-u-n.

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**Graf** · Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 7:08 am Post subject:

**alexhaz64** · Joined: 01 Mar 2008 Posts: 4480 Location: Long Beach, CA

anyone who's played this game (or FC'd a majority of it... I'm looking at you, Graf)- how hard are the hardest songs? Like, what song would be comparable in difficulty to, say, I want you to want me? Thanks, it would give me an idea of how hard the song really is. (videos can never quite do justice...)
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**Graf** · Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 8:42 am Post subject:

**ElementOfZero** · Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 12:45 pm Post subject:

There's something I don't get with why people are ranking You Had Me so high. Sure, it consists of HOPO chains, but they're incredibly easy. There's no fast ones at all, and the hardest patterns only skip a note going up or down the fretboard. But, there's certainly no challenge hitting them even for a 3-fingered player like myself. The only thing which I found to be remotely difficult in that song was something like a blue hammeron placed after or before a three note chord (? dont exactly remember it) that didn't feel natural. But certainly Paralyzer is harder than this. Even Lifeline should be ranked harder than this. The strum/hopo parts are much quicker than You Had Me's everything plus you're switching frets every hit. Coupled with the frequency and length it's easier to miss.

Haven't played Rio yet, but it's at the top of my list on what to FC next on Guitar and Bass. Or Picture to Burn and Kung Fu Fighting. PTB didn't sound like it was going to be bad, but KFF from what I say briefly on video looked somewhat difficult.

Also, YMCA was a sightread FC for me as well. Purple note sections aren't bad with what seems like a more improved slider section that GH5. The few I FCed above it took a considerable amount of time compared to a sightread FC of YMCA. Those songs being Take A Picture, Black Horse, Lifeline, Heard it through the Grapevine.
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