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Black Cat by Janet Jackson

A Band Hero chart.

Neversoft / Band Hero / Official / Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814 / 1989 / R&B

On Expert Lead it scores D 12.79, Calc Tier 4, at or above 45% of the site’s Expert Guitar charts. On Expert Bass it scores D 8.31, Calc Tier 1, at or above 44% of the site’s Expert Bass charts. On Expert Drums it scores D 10.10, Calc Tier 0, at or above 2% of the site’s Expert Drums charts. On Expert Vocals it scores D 31.85, Calc Tier 5, at or above 91% of the site’s Expert Vocals charts. As a band it places at tier 2, the mean of its two hardest core parts.

Difficulty graph of Black Cat by Janet Jackson: notes per second, fret changes per second and their sum over time

PartExpertHardMediumEasy
Lead Tier 412.7945%8.7735%7.0553%5.3464%
Bass Tier 18.3144%7.1944%5.9061%4.5766%
Drums Tier 010.102%8.512%6.265%5.9030%
Vocals Tier 531.8591%———

Ranked #5 of 65 songs in Band Hero on Expert guitar, and #1215 of the 2,257 songs on the site with an Expert guitar chart. 700 notes over 4:31, 2.6 a second on average.

Nearby on Expert guitar: harder: Everlong by Foo Fighters (D 12.80, tier 4), Contend and Amend by I Am Abomination (D 12.80, tier 4); easier: Foolin' by Def Leppard (D 12.79, tier 4), Maschin by Bilderbuch (D 12.79, tier 4)

In Band Hero: harder: Take a Picture by Filter (D 12.99, tier 4), You Had Me by Joss Stone (D 13.16, tier 4); easier: Kids by Robbie Williams and Kylie Minogue (D 12.72, tier 4), I Want You to Want Me (Live) by Cheap Trick (D 12.54, tier 4)

From Band Hero, 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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