Difficulty ratings for Guitar Hero, Rock Band and Clone Hero charts

18,838 charts of 2,260 songs from 34 sources, the games, their DLC and the custom packs, on guitar, bass, keys, drums and vocals, each scored by fretwork from the notes in the chart file: how busy it is, how much the hands move, how unevenly the work is spread and how long it goes on. Nothing is voted on or hand-assigned, so a Clone Hero custom sits on the same scale as a Guitar Hero III song. The table sorts and filters by instrument, level, source and difficulty, and every chart has a graph of its difficulty over time.

The hardest Expert Guitar charts

#	Song	Artist	Part	Difficulty (D)	Calc Tier
1	That Which Oversees the World Anticausally	HertzDevil	Co-op	79.68	14
2	Fake Bit Much	MisfitChris	Co-op	77.52	14
3	closer underchart	Fc Closer Coil Baby	Lead	74.00	14
4	Sirius Bismuth	Blitz Lunar	Lead	69.54	13
5	Goose Communications	PROTODOME	Co-op	63.25	13
6	Spo0py	Zorldo Kang	Lead	62.67	13
7	Central Park	Matt Gray	Co-op	62.27	13
8	Monty on the Run (Main Theme)	Rob Hubbard	Co-op	60.37	12
9	Commando (Main Theme)	Rob Hubbard	Co-op	60.33	12
10	The Coffee Zone (Full Album)	Fearofdark	Co-op	60.26	12

The hardest Expert Bass charts

#	Song	Artist	Part	Difficulty (D)	Calc Tier
1	Trill Duet	Colorics	Bass	57.02	12
2	2k9 battle jam	meganeko	Bass	21.34	7
3	ur 2 slow !!!!!!!!	Moose	Bass	20.41	6
4	Metropolis—Part I: "The Miracle and the Sleeper"	Dream Theater	Bass	19.21	6
5	Visions	Abnormality	Bass	19.07	6
6	Fury of the Storm	DragonForce	Bass	18.81	6
7	A New World	Instant Reality	Bass	18.61	6
8	This Day We Fight!	Megadeth	Bass	18.47	6
9	Green Grass and High Tides	The Outlaws (WaveGroup)	Bass	17.50	6
10	Panic Attack	Dream Theater	Bass	17.44	6

The hardest Expert Keys charts

#	Song	Artist	Part	Difficulty (D)	Calc Tier
1	Roundabout	Yes	Keys	21.60	7
2	Antibodies	Poni Hoax	Keys	19.85	6
3	Free Bird	Lynyrd Skynyrd	Keys	17.60	6
4	This Bastard's Life	Swingin' Utters	Keys	16.57	5
5	Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting	Elton John	Keys	15.64	5
6	Something Bigger, Something Brighter	Pretty Girls Make Graves	Keys	13.82	4
7	Dead End Friends	Them Crooked Vultures	Keys	13.54	4
8	Llama	Phish	Keys	13.14	4
9	Smoke on the Water	Deep Purple	Keys	13.09	4
10	Crosstown Traffic	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	Keys	13.01	4

The hardest Expert Drums charts

#	Song	Artist	Part	Difficulty (D)	Calc Tier
1	5 (Illuminate the Excessive Full EP)	Soreption	Drums	35.40	8
2	21st Century Schizoid Man	King Crimson	Drums	32.32	8
3	Fury of the Storm	DragonForce	Drums	31.48	8
4	Through the Fire and Flames	Dragonforce	Drums	31.10	7
5	Dead Black (Heart of Ice)	Soul Remnants	Drums	29.41	7
6	Chemical Warfare	Slayer	Drums	28.89	7
7	A Visceral Retch	Whitechapel	Drums	28.82	7
8	99.974°C	tricot	Drums	28.39	7
9	4	Soreption	Drums	28.38	7
10	Metropolis—Part I: "The Miracle and the Sleeper"	Dream Theater	Drums	28.10	7

The hardest Expert Vocals charts

#	Song	Artist	Part	Difficulty (D)	Calc Tier
1	Static (feat. Hatsune Miku)	FLAVOR FOLEY	Vocals	53.43	8
2	Muri Muri Evolution	NanaoAkari	Vocals	50.19	7
3	Bohemian Rhapsody	Queen	Vocals	48.97	7
4	In the Meantime	Spacehog	Vocals	48.83	7
5	Turn Off the Light	Nelly Furtado	Vocals	48.48	7
6	American Pie	Don McLean	Vocals	48.14	7
7	Extradimensional Cosmic Phenomenon (feat. tug)	TAKIO	Vocals	43.83	7
8	ABC	Jackson 5	Vocals	43.76	7
9	Mainstream Kid	Brandi Carlile	Vocals	43.13	6
10	Bohemian Rhapsody	Queen	Vocals	42.97	6

Difficulty ratings for Guitar Hero, Rock Band and Clone Hero charts

The hardest Expert Guitar charts

The hardest Expert Bass charts

The hardest Expert Keys charts

The hardest Expert Drums charts

The hardest Expert Vocals charts

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