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One video I saw states that, at the higher levels, Guitar Hero can be harder than playing a real guitar.

• LocalH 5y ago
  It absolutely can be. It can even be harder at lower levels, if someone has strong muscle memory for guitar. The engines are much less rigid than one might think - GH is one of the few rhythm games were per-gem accuracy is not a consideration whatsoever. Some fan engines will track your accuracy per gem, or at least report it to the player, but the core gameplay mechanics don't take that into account at all (gems score the same whether you hit them early, late, or perfect, as long as they're still within the hit window). In fact, that creates a phenomenon known as "squeezing" where you abuse the window to hit a gem as late as possible, activating star power immediately before, and then hitting a gem as early as possible right before the star power empties. This allows one to get an extra gem under the additional 2x multiplier that active star power provides. Almost all of the #1 scores on Scorehero use this to a high degree, making the actual star power "path" (basically, the positions in the chart where activation of star power gives you the most optimal score) highly important.