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Difficulties are levels of gameplay used in the Guitar Hero games.

Main series difficulties[]

The four major difficulty modes are:

  • Easy ("Casual" in Guitar Hero Live): On console games, only the green fret, red fret, and yellow fret are used. Chords rarely appear. The highway also scrolls notes very slow.
  • Medium ("Regular" in Guitar Hero Live): On console games, the blue fret is also used. There are more notes in Medium than there are on Easy, but less than Hard. Chords appear a bit more often. The highway scrolls notes slowly but moves slightly faster than on Easy.
  • Hard ("Advanced" in Guitar Hero Live): On console games, all five frets are used but still will not contain every note heard in the song. The highway scrolls notes slightly faster than on Medium.
  • Expert: On console games, every note and chord heard in a song will be played on all five frets. The highway scrolls notes moderately fast but good enough to see and react to notes.

Guitar Hero World Tour also introduced the Beginner difficulty ("Basic" in Guitar Hero Live) in which all Easy notes are replaced with a rainbow bar that can be played with any frets or no frets held.

Guitar Hero: Metallica introduced Expert+ difficulty for drums, which enables double bass drum kick notes and—for Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rockghost notes. A second kick pedal is recommended on this difficulty.

List of icons/colors used for each difficulty level for each game
Game Beginner Easy Medium Hard Expert Expert+
Guitar Hero World Tour GHWT Beginner icon GHWT Easy icon GHWT Medium icon GHWT Hard icon GHWT Expert icon N/A
Guitar Hero: Metallica File:GHM Beginner icon.png File:GHM Easy icon.png File:GHM Medium icon.png File:GHM Hard icon.png File:GHM Expert icon.png File:GHM Expert+ icon.png
Guitar Hero: Smash Hits File:GHSH Beginner icon.png File:GHSH Easy icon.png File:GHSH Medium icon.png File:GHSH Hard icon.png File:GHSH Expert icon.png File:GHSH Expert+ icon.png
Guitar Hero 5 File:GH5 Beginner icon.png File:GH5 Easy icon.png File:GH5 Medium icon.png File:GH5 Hard icon.png File:GH5 Expert icon.png File:GH5 Expert+ icon.png
Band Hero (console) File:BH Beginner icon.png File:BH Easy icon.png File:BH Medium icon.png File:BH Hard icon.png File:BH Expert icon.png File:BH Expert+ icon.png
Band Hero (Nintendo DS) Blue Green Yellow Orange Red N/A
Guitar Hero: Van Halen File:GHVH Beginner icon.png File:GHVH Easy icon.png File:GHVH Medium icon.png File:GHVH Hard icon.png File:GHVH Expert icon.png File:GHVH Expert+ icon.png
Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock File:GHWoR Beginner icon.png File:GHWoR Easy icon.png File:GHWoR Medium icon.png File:GHWoR Hard icon.png File:GHWoR Expert icon.png File:GHWoR Expert+ icon.png

Guitar Hero Mobile difficulties[]

Guitar Hero III Mobile - Difficulty selection

Difficulty screen in Guitar Hero III Mobile.

In the Guitar Hero Mobile series, there are only three difficulties: Easy, Medium, and Expert.

All three difficulties uses all three lanes. Green notes, red notes, and yellow notes. Easy will rarely have chords. Medium has more notes than easy and may have chords. While Expert has more notes and chords than Medium difficulty, Expert difficulty in the Mobile series does not use every note heard in the song; it's more like Hard difficulty and even some chords heard in songs will be played as single notes.

Backstage Pass titles[]

"Rehearsal levels" redirects here.

In the Backstage Pass subseries of Guitar Hero Mobile games (Guitar Hero III: Backstage Pass and Guitar Hero World Tour Mobile: Backstage Pass), there is no Easy, Medium, or Expert difficulty for the Rehearse and Fret Frenzy minigames (and other main instrumental minigames in GHWTM:BSP) but there is a form of song difficulty for songs and venues. Learning songs via "Rehearsing" them increases the difficulty of the song and venues of the same stars use their difficulty level.

  • Rehearsal levels ranged from 0 stars to 5 stars with more notes added to each level, and each level can be increased by rehearsing the songs at home. Higher Rehearsal levels will gain access to more venues with that song. New songs (Rehearsal level 0 songs) have the least amount of notes and cannot be played at gigs or while busking; they must be rehearsed first while passing high score requirements to level up.
  • Rehearsal level 1 songs can be played at 1-star venues (Bars), rehearsal level 2 songs can be played up to 2-star venues (Clubs), level 3 songs up to 3-star venues (Concert Halls), level 4 songs up to 4-star venues (Stadiums), and level 5 songs up to 5-star venues (Festivals). Depending on the level of venue they are played at, the rehearsed songs will play their venue level's difficulty (e.g. a Rehearsed level 4 "War Pigs" played at a 2-star venue will use its Rehearsed level 2 song difficulty).

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