Overview
- Estimated achievement difficulty: 3/10
- Offline: 45
- Online: 4
- Approximate amount of time to 1000: 16-18 hours
- Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 1-1.5
- Missable Achievements: None
- Glitched achievements: Yes, Sampler Plate.
- Do cheat codes disable achievements: They don’t!
- Does difficulty affect achievements: Unless specified, no. However, you can’t complete challenges on Beginner.

Sampler plate is glitched and not described well. Click Here for suggestions/solutions. Although achievements involve all instrument types, you can play on Xbox Live to get them, even if you don’t have the instrument yourself. Use cheats to beat challenges easily.

Introduction:
Guitar Hero 5 achievements are vastly different from previous incarnations because they are so much easier. Some are quite enjoyable while others are boring and you need to just grind out. DLC and Import songs are allowed for gaining achievements and for various challenges. Your best friend will be the CHEAT CODES, and a fan. Make sure to also use the Achievement Guide, and the Diamond Challenges Guide.

Abbreviated Walkthrough:

Step #1- Career
Each song has a possible 9 stars. Six stars for a FC and three for completing the Diamond challenge (or two for Platinum, or one for Gold). You can play Vocals on Beginner and place a fan in front of your mic/headset to achieve 100% FC every time. This will net you roughly 600 Stars for career. For the remaining stars, you will need to beat Challenges. Use the Diamond Challenges Guide to get 808 stars and 50 completed challenges. When you get to “Bring the Noise 20XX”, switch the difficulty to Expert but keep the fan. You will still get 100%, and several achievements.

Along the way, play a song as your avatar, play one with four created bandmates, beat the “Play That Funky Music” Gold Challenge, beat five Band Challenges on Gold or better, beat a sponsor gig on Diamond, and score 9,000 while in star power during the 85 songs. Switch up your instruments as you go or go back to them later to get some achievements, or invite some friends on Xbox Live to play songs/challenges for you. You (or a friend) must beat at least one challenge for each instrument. Make sure to play every song in career, but you likely were going to anyways.

Step #2- Multiplayer
If you have four of one instrument you can boost most of these offline. Also, having all four types helps too. Organize matches in the Achievement Trading Thread to get your achievements quicker. Achievements involving playing with four of the same instrument can be done even if you don’t own that particular type. As long as your bandmates/opponents do they count. Get these while playing your ten RockFest matches. The “Sampler Plate” achievement requires you to play a song in Career, Quickplay, and every Competitive mode type, so you knock some off their or in the 25 pro-face off matches. “Song 2” by Blur is the shortest song in the game so keep that in mind. Play a 4v4 match with everyone on the same instrument, and 4v4 with traditional bands (Guitar, Bass, Vocals, Drums).

Step #3- Band Specific Achievements
You may have gotten some already, but there are a few achievements involving traditional (all 4 instrument types) and non-traditional (a combination of any type) bands. Get an x11 multiplier with a traditional band for two achievements, online or off. Do this during your 4v4 traditional band match if you haven’t already. Use a non-traditional band to beat four career challenges on Gold, and getting 3 million points for “Score Bigger” and “Score Biggest.” Again, "ScoreBgstGtarDrum" from GHTunes is the best bet for score. Rack up 20 Band Moments and that should wrap up the band achievements.

Step #4- Custom Songs and Quickplay
Create a custom song in the GHMix. Read five Tooltips, then make a song with one note. You can use customs songs to hammer out 14,100, and 300 songs in Quickplay. Also, make a setlist of at least an hour long, with the custom song being the last one. Skip every song EXCEPT the last one, and play that for “Play it to the Bone.” Now download a custom song from GHTunes filled with easy noted for “Score Big.” Try searching for "ScoreBgstGtarDrum", an easy song for drums, guitar, or both.

Step #5- Anything You Missed
Check the Achievement Guide to find any you may have missed, like checking out a New Feature in the Tutorials section or a 1001 note streak. Otherwise, following steps 1-4 should have covered the rest.

Conclusion:
A relatively easy list with most of the difficulty involving organizing or finding certain multiplayer matches. 100% completion is very possible if you are willing to play a couple hundred songs.