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Knights of Cydonia by Muse

A Guitar Hero III: Legends Of Rock chart, from the Guitar Hero III (Individual Songs) pack.

Neversoft / Guitar Hero III: Legends Of Rock / Official / Black Holes & Revelations / 2006 / Alternative Rock

On Expert Lead it scores D 17.53, Calc Tier 6, at or above 72% of the site’s Expert Guitar charts. On Expert Bass it scores D 11.86, Calc Tier 3, at or above 88% of the site’s Expert Bass charts. As a band it places at tier 4, the mean of its two hardest core parts.

Difficulty graph of Knights of Cydonia by Muse: notes per second, fret changes per second and their sum over time

PartExpertHardMediumEasy
Lead Tier 617.5372%16.0794%9.1884%5.8075%
Bass Tier 311.8688%10.4491%8.2095%5.3885%

Ranked #13 of 75 songs in Guitar Hero III (Individual Songs) on Expert guitar, and #576 of the 2,257 songs on the site with an Expert guitar chart. 1,917 notes over 5:34, 5.7 a second on average.

Nearby on Expert guitar: harder: Train Kept A Rollin' by Aerosmith (D 17.55, tier 6), Suffer Louder by Cult Leader (D 17.55, tier 6); easier: Suicide And Redemption J.K.H. by Metallica (D 17.52, tier 6), Room 409 by Bullet For My Valentine (D 17.50, tier 6)

In Guitar Hero III (Individual Songs): harder: Black Sunshine by White Zombie (WaveGroup) (D 17.60, tier 6), Guitar Battle vs. Slash by Slash (D 18.40, tier 6); easier: Impulse by An Endless Sporadic (D 17.20, tier 5), Take This Life by In Flames (D 16.77, tier 5)

More by Muse: Assassin by Muse (D 15.60, tier 5), Stockholm Syndrome by Muse (D 15.22, tier 5), Supermassive Black Hole by Muse (D 10.58, tier 3), Uprising by Muse (D 10.50, tier 3), Plug In Baby by Muse (D 9.48, tier 2)

From Guitar Hero III (Individual Songs), whose every song is ranked by difficulty on its page.

D is the difficulty fretwork computes from the chart’s note density and movement, with the percentile among charts of the same instrument and level on the site and the Calc Tier anchored to the Expert chart; how it is scored and what the library holds. A number opens that chart’s graph.

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