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Walking on the Sun by Smash Mouth

A Rock Band 3 chart.

Harmonix / Rock Band 3 / Official / Fush Yu Mang / 1997 / Pop-Rock

On Expert Lead it scores D 8.60, Calc Tier 2, at or above 8% of the site’s Expert Guitar charts. On Expert Bass it scores D 5.89, Calc Tier 0, at or above 7% of the site’s Expert Bass charts. On Expert Keys it scores D 8.45, Calc Tier 1, at or above 43% of the site’s Expert Keys charts. On Expert Drums it scores D 11.83, Calc Tier 1, at or above 6% of the site’s Expert Drums charts. On Expert Vocals it scores D 26.37, Calc Tier 4, at or above 75% of the site’s Expert Vocals charts. As a band it places at tier 1, the mean of its two hardest core parts.

Difficulty graph of Walking on the Sun by Smash Mouth: notes per second, fret changes per second and their sum over time

PartExpertHardMediumEasy
Lead Tier 28.608%6.546%4.063%2.906%
Bass Tier 05.897%5.4811%3.434%2.072%
Keys Tier 18.4543%5.6435%4.8757%2.8143%
Drums Tier 111.836%11.9224%10.3857%8.9378%
Vocals Tier 426.3775%———

Ranked #69 of 82 songs in Rock Band 3 on Expert guitar, and #2058 of the 2,257 songs on the site with an Expert guitar chart. 364 notes over 3:19, 1.8 a second on average.

Nearby on Expert guitar: harder: Get Free by The Vines (D 8.60, tier 2), Pretend We're Dead by L7 (D 8.62, tier 2); easier: Pretty Fly (For a White Guy) by The Offspring (D 8.59, tier 2), I Need to Know by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (D 8.58, tier 2)

In Rock Band 3: harder: Killing Loneliness by HIM (D 8.77, tier 2), False Alarm by The Bronx (D 8.87, tier 2); easier: I Need to Know by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (D 8.58, tier 2), Whip It by Devo (D 8.47, tier 1)

From Rock Band 3, 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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