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Learn to play the hardest song in Guitar Hero: Smash Hits, 'Through the Fire and Flames' by Dragonforce. This guide provides tabs for Easy, Medium, Hard, and Expert difficulties.

Welcome to the guide for the most challenging song in Guitar Hero: Smash Hits, "Through the Fire and Flames." This guide will provide guitar tabs for each difficulty level, preceded by introductory sections and followed by a closing and credits.

Song Information:

• Artist: Dragonforce
• Song Length: 7 minutes 19 seconds
• Year: 2006
• Original Game: Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock
• Venue in Career: Quebec City
• Exportable to GH5/BH: No

Version History:

• Version 0.00 (01/05/2010): Guide started.
• Version 0.50 (08/05/2010): Hard and Expert difficulties completed. Easy and Medium may be added later.

Copyright Notice: This guide is protected by copyright. Copying or distributing it without explicit permission and proper credit will result in severe consequences. Full, exact copying is permitted only with both permission and credit.

Tabs Overview:

The tabs section includes layouts and keys for each difficulty:

• Layout: Explains the structure of the tab notation, including fret colors (Green, Red, Yellow, Blue, Orange) and beat timing. Easy difficulty omits Blue and Orange, Medium omits Orange, while Hard and Expert include all five colors.
• Key: Defines the fret colors used in the tabs.
• Easy: Tabs for the Easy difficulty.
• Medium: Tabs for the Medium difficulty.
• Hard: Tabs for the Hard difficulty.
• Expert: Tabs for the Expert difficulty.

A basic tab section is represented as:

G|----------------|
R|----------------|
Y|----------------|
B|----------------|
O|----------------|
  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +

Dashes represent rests, and notes replace dashes in the correct position. Numbers indicate beats, and plus signs denote notes between beats.