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Carry on Wayward Son by Kansas

A Rock Band 2 chart.

Harmonix / Rock Band 2 / Official / Leftoverture / 1976 / Progressive

On Expert Lead it scores D 14.17, Calc Tier 4, at or above 55% of the site’s Expert Guitar charts. On Expert Bass it scores D 9.43, Calc Tier 2, at or above 63% of the site’s Expert Bass charts. On Expert Drums it scores D 15.47, Calc Tier 3, at or above 40% of the site’s Expert Drums charts. On Expert Vocals it scores D 23.95, Calc Tier 3, at or above 64% of the site’s Expert Vocals charts. As a band it places at tier 3, the mean of its two hardest core parts.

Difficulty graph of Carry on Wayward Son by Kansas: notes per second, fret changes per second and their sum over time

PartExpertHardMediumEasy
Lead Tier 414.1755%8.5731%5.2214%3.5316%
Bass Tier 29.4363%7.3949%4.7631%3.7841%
Drums Tier 315.4740%13.7650%11.7077%10.5290%
Vocals Tier 323.9564%———

Ranked #19 of 84 songs in Rock Band 2 on Expert guitar, and #986 of the 2,257 songs on the site with an Expert guitar chart. 968 notes over 5:18, 3.0 a second on average.

Nearby on Expert guitar: harder: Panama by Van Halen (D 14.18, tier 4), Cherub Rock by The Smashing Pumpkins (D 14.18, tier 4); easier: Suffer No Fool by Power Trip (D 14.17, tier 4), Carry On Wayward Son by Kansas (WaveGroup) (D 14.16, tier 4)

In Rock Band 2: harder: Any Way You Want It by Journey (D 14.28, tier 4), Master Exploder by Tenacious D (D 14.45, tier 4); easier: Night Lies by Bang Camaro (D 14.11, tier 4), Spoonman by Soundgarden (D 13.62, tier 4)

More by Kansas: Carry On Wayward Son by Kansas (D 14.98, tier 5)

From Rock Band 2, 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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