I started out beastly too and did pretty well on an easy and two med's at a friends house. They we're all "yeh man ur doing much better than our 1st time!" and then they start shredding through paint it and 3s n 7s on expert... *jaw dropped* but they kept saying I'd get there eventually lol
Anyway I just got it 4 xmas and I wanted to get good and show them up, so I went straight for hard; didn't even look at easy or med. Now... I three* my way to 8th tier, right? and I give my all to raining blood and I'm thinking "No fkin way...period!" so I go down to easy and med (I was just in that sort of mood after such extreme pwnage from a game!><) and 5* easy (tedious!!) then move to medium and 5* with... relative ease as well. So I'm ready to beat 8th tier now right? Hell NO! I'm even worse! @#%! my lazy as pinky! but at least I worked up the balls to try the others. Cliffs of dover (cool song) and number of the beast took some doing but got done ^^ and now I've got the fast solo's of One laughing at my clumsy and pathetic fingers! I've gotten 79% too many times to count...
I'm now half-way through expert and I still can't work out the fast solo OR mosh 1. wtf am I supposed to do!? Sighs* after looking around the web it seems I'm not the only one who's in this mess. but of all the furoms I've looked on there's none with real advice for it! but this isn't a help thread anyway so forget that

Anyway I just wanted to put in my 2 cents... these last 3 days have been insane, it's obviously a great game, I just can't believe I started so late! I want to check 'I, 'II, and the 80's!