Rock Band 1 song list ranked by difficulty

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Every song in Rock Band 1 ranked by fretwork’s difficulty on Expert guitar, D, with the Calc Tier and the percentile among the site’s Expert Guitar charts, and the bass, keys, drums and vocals charts beside it. A song opens its page; a number opens that chart’s graph.

62 songs, 806 charts, official, on the site since 7 September 2026

#	Song	Artist	Difficulty (D)	Calc Tier	Bass	Keys	Drums	Vocals
1	Green Grass and High Tides	The Outlaws (WaveGroup)	21.8686%	7	17.5099%	—	18.7074%	14.6614%
2	Green Grass (Vocal Version)	The Outlaws (WaveGroup)	17.2271%	5	11.1683%	—	16.4853%	15.4617%
3	Flirtin' with Disaster	Molly Hatchet	16.0865%	5	12.4690%	—	18.5073%	19.9240%
4	Train Kept A-Rollin'	Aerosmith (WaveGroup)	15.5963%	5	10.5477%	—	20.5284%	16.8923%
5	Highway Star	Deep Purple	15.0761%	5	14.7797%	—	19.2278%	21.9652%
6	Foreplay / Long Time	Boston	14.4357%	4	10.0772%	—	19.3478%	33.2993%
7	Long Time (Vocal Version)	Boston	14.2856%	4	9.8369%	—	15.4940%	33.9994%
8	Enter Sandman	Metallica	14.2655%	4	8.0638%	—	16.0248%	18.1128%
9	Run to the Hills	Iron Maiden (WaveGroup)	13.8853%	4	14.0195%	—	21.8890%	19.5937%
10	Brainpower	Freezepop	13.5651%	4	9.0156%	—	16.6155%	13.9011%
11	Outside	Tribe	13.4250%	4	7.7533%	—	18.5373%	16.1421%
12	Train Kept A-Rollin' (Vocal Version)	Aerosmith (WaveGroup)	13.4250%	4	8.4447%	—	18.4172%	19.6538%
13	Pleasure (Pleasure)	Bang Camaro	13.2549%	4	8.4848%	—	14.0023%	14.5013%
14	Won't Get Fooled Again (Vocal Version)	The Who	13.2549%	4	10.8280%	—	23.7194%	21.4548%
15	Nightmare	Crooked X	13.1047%	4	8.6851%	—	14.4828%	11.576%
16	Won't Get Fooled Again	The Who	13.0047%	4	10.7079%	—	23.6794%	21.5048%
17	Ballroom Blitz	Sweet (WaveGroup)	12.9646%	4	9.2460%	—	16.1749%	21.6149%
18	Welcome Home	Coheed and Cambria	12.8545%	4	10.2775%	—	16.8257%	23.7663%
19	Can't Let Go	Death of the Cool	12.6744%	4	9.7868%	—	15.9546%	20.9946%
20	(Don't Fear) The Reaper	Blue Öyster Cult	12.6644%	4	11.8187%	—	22.8692%	11.967%
21	Cherub Rock	The Smashing Pumpkins	12.6143%	4	9.2861%	—	18.9175%	15.2216%
22	Blood Doll	Anarchy Club	12.4542%	4	7.6331%	—	11.987%	23.5261%
23	Vasoline	Stone Temple Pilots	12.4142%	4	9.8269%	—	14.5228%	13.079%
24	Tom Sawyer	Rush (WaveGroup)	12.1940%	4	10.9781%	—	18.6574%	21.9151%
25	Timmy & the Lords of the Underworld	Timmy & the Lords of the Underworld	12.0939%	3	8.3345%	—	17.3862%	9.714%
26	Dani California	Red Hot Chili Peppers	12.0439%	3	9.4463%	—	17.2061%	21.5149%
27	Wanted Dead or Alive	Bon Jovi	11.7836%	3	5.314%	—	14.0023%	19.3737%
28	Epic	Faith No More	11.7736%	3	8.0438%	—	16.1549%	14.9415%
29	Paranoid	Black Sabbath (WaveGroup)	11.4533%	3	9.8169%	—	16.6755%	9.093%
30	Main Offender	The Hives	11.3432%	3	7.5329%	—	14.0323%	18.2930%
31	Suffragette City	David Bowie	11.3432%	3	8.2843%	—	15.8544%	23.3360%
32	Dead on Arrival	Fall Out Boy	11.1630%	3	8.8054%	—	18.7875%	20.5744%
33	Black Hole Sun	Soundgarden	11.1030%	3	5.988%	—	15.2337%	23.0258%
34	The Hand That Feeds	Nine Inch Nails	10.7226%	3	8.6651%	—	15.2837%	14.7514%
35	Reptilia	The Strokes	10.7126%	3	7.9236%	—	17.5765%	18.3330%
36	Gimme Shelter	The Rolling Stones	10.6325%	3	9.6667%	—	12.8713%	28.3482%
37	Electric Version	The New Pornographers	10.1620%	2	10.0471%	—	17.4764%	19.3136%
38	Creep	Radiohead	10.1119%	2	5.465%	—	12.228%	25.1670%
39	Seven	VAGIANT	9.8717%	2	9.7969%	—	16.8257%	22.7055%
40	Celebrity Skin	Hole	9.8217%	2	8.9155%	—	14.9533%	20.4843%
41	Day Late, Dollar Short	The Acro-brats	9.7116%	2	8.6451%	—	16.4953%	12.708%
42	I Get By	Honest Bob and the Factory-to-Dealer Incentives	9.7116%	2	6.6115%	—	18.1169%	32.3891%
43	I'm So Sick	Flyleaf	9.4414%	2	10.1172%	—	11.465%	15.7219%
44	Sabotage	Beastie Boys	9.3413%	2	10.4076%	—	11.485%	2.882%
45	In Bloom	Nirvana	8.9710%	2	8.3345%	—	15.0934%	18.6231%
46	29 Fingers	The Konks	8.829%	2	7.7733%	—	10.493%	11.025%
47	Learn to Fly	Foo Fighters	8.799%	2	5.907%	—	14.8032%	22.5955%
48	Go with the Flow	Queens of the Stone Age	8.468%	1	8.7653%	—	16.9658%	15.6118%
49	Blitzkrieg Bop	Ramones	8.357%	1	6.9119%	—	13.9022%	11.606%
50	Orange Crush	R.E.M.	8.357%	1	6.7917%	—	17.7466%	13.059%
51	Next to You	The Police	8.307%	1	9.1058%	—	17.5364%	24.0665%
52	Here It Goes Again	OK Go	8.256%	1	8.8154%	—	13.3717%	22.0052%
53	Detroit Rock City	KISS	8.216%	1	10.6378%	—	16.9858%	20.8045%
54	Are You Gonna Be My Girl	Jet	8.115%	1	8.8755%	—	14.9033%	25.3371%
55	When You Were Young	The Killers	7.965%	1	6.7716%	—	15.6041%	15.8520%
56	Mississippi Queen	Mountain (WaveGroup)	7.924%	1	7.1322%	—	11.806%	23.1659%
57	Should I Stay or Should I Go	The Clash	7.924%	1	6.5614%	—	12.4210%	17.2324%
58	Time We Had	The Mother Hips	7.613%	1	8.6651%	—	17.3062%	18.5531%
59	Say It Ain't So	Weezer	7.282%	1	5.284%	—	11.957%	25.5372%
60	Maps	Yeah Yeah Yeahs	7.142%	1	5.756%	—	15.6242%	18.1429%
61	Wave of Mutilation	Pixies	7.042%	0	7.3626%	—	14.5829%	14.5614%
62	I Think I'm Paranoid	Garbage	6.812%	0	5.224%	—	11.997%	24.9869%

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