List of songs in Guitar Hero

"Guitar Hero" is a music video game for the Sony PlayStation 2 developed by Harmonix Music Systems and released in vgy|2005. "Guitar Hero"'s gameplay features the use of a special guitar-shaped controller modeled after a Gibson SG guitar to recreate the lead guitar part of several rock music songs; the player scores in the game by both pressing one or more fret buttons on the controller and using a strum bar in time with notes as they appear on screen. The game features a total of 47 songs.

Main setlist

There are thirty songs within the solo "Career" mode.cite web | url = http://ps2.ign.com/articles/662/662002p1.html | title = "Guitar Hero" Song List Unveiled | publisher = IGN | first = Chris | last = Roper | date =2005-10-26 | accessdate = 2007-08-19 ] The songs are grouped by difficulty into named tiers.cite web | url = http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/puzzle/guitarhero/review.html?sid=6137018 | title = Guitar Hero Review | publisher = GameSpot | first = Jeff | last = Gerstmann | date = 2005-11-07 | accessdate= 2008-03-25] Furthermore, four overall difficulty levels — Easy, Medium, Hard, and Expert — are present in the game, reflecting the number of frets that are employed, the number of notes to be played, and the speed at which the notes scroll on the screen. Tiers are presented sequentially within each difficulty level; in lower difficulty modes, only 3 or 4 songs of each tier must be completed before the next tier is made available for that difficulty level, while in the hardest difficulty, all five songs must be completed. Once a tier is opened at any difficulty level, the songs in that tier are playable in quickplay or competitive modes.

All songs are covers of the original versions, credited as, for example, "'Iron Man' as made famous by Black Sabbath", and were performed by WaveGroup Sound for the game.cite web | url = http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/78090 | title = WaveGroup Announces The Guitar Hero Recordings | publisher = The Escapist | date =2007-10-17 | accessdate = 2008-03-25 | first = Andy | last = Chalk] WaveGroup has released a selection of these covers through paid download services like iTunes in a collection entitled "The Guitar Hero Recordings".

rf|b|bThe group Artillery has since changed their name to Breaking Wheel.

Other songs

Two other songs are present on the game media, but they can only be unlocked through the use of a PlayStation 2 cheat device, such as GameShark, Code Breaker or Action Replay. [cite web | url = http://home.rochester.rr.com/gendreau/vgsplayer/ | title = Guitar Hero Trainer: VGSPlayer 1.4 beta | first = Dan | last = Gendreau | publisher = Dan Gendreau | accessdate = 2008-03-27] [cite web | url = http://www.mycheats.com/view/faq/3141536/21954/guitar_hero/ps2 | title = Song Stats Guide | author = Exodus | publisher = MyCheats | date = 2006-10-03 | accessdate = 2008-03-27]
*"Graveyard Shift" - artist unknown
*"Trippolette" - by Andrew Buch, a composer at Berklee College of Music who has worked on the Harmonix team. [cite web | url = http://www.andrewbuch.com/trippolette.php | title = Trippolette | publisher = Andrewbuch.com | first = Andrew | last = Buch | accessdate = 2008-03-25] [cite web | url = http://kotaku.com/gaming/guitar-hero/hidden-guitar-hero-song-170431.php | title = Hidden Guitar Hero Song | publisher = Kotaku | date = 2006-04-28 | accessdate = 2008-03-28 | first = Brian | last = Ashcroft ]

References

External links

* [http://www.guitarherogame.com/gh1/ "Guitar Hero" Official USA website]
* [http://www.guitarherogame.co.uk/ "Guitar Hero" Official UK website]