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And the Cradle Will Rock by Van Halen

A Guitar Hero: Van Halen chart, from the Guitar Hero Van Halen pack.

Neversoft / Guitar Hero: Van Halen / Official / Women and Children First / 1980 / Rock

On Expert Lead it scores D 16.28, Calc Tier 5, at or above 66% 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 12.85, Calc Tier 2, at or above 13% of the site’s Expert Drums charts. On Expert Vocals it scores D 13.62, Calc Tier 0, at or above 10% 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 And the Cradle Will Rock by Van Halen: notes per second, fret changes per second and their sum over time

PartExpertHardMediumEasy
Lead Tier 516.2866%9.7451%6.2035%3.2812%
Bass Tier 18.3144%6.4728%4.4823%3.0019%
Drums Tier 212.8513%11.5920%7.0611%5.0913%
Vocals Tier 013.6210%———

Ranked #10 of 47 songs in Guitar Hero Van Halen on Expert guitar, and #715 of the 2,257 songs on the site with an Expert guitar chart. 1,090 notes over 3:34, 5.1 a second on average.

Nearby on Expert guitar: harder: Pistol Whipped by Tijuana Sweetheart (D 16.29, tier 5), Patty Wagon (Sandwich Driving 101) by Timothy J. Borquez & Mark Howlett (D 16.31, tier 5); easier: St. Louis by Moon Hooch (D 16.27, tier 5), Little Guitars by Van Halen (D 16.26, tier 5)

In Guitar Hero Van Halen: harder: Ice Cream Man by Van Halen (D 16.55, tier 5), Jump by Van Halen (D 16.78, tier 5); easier: Little Guitars by Van Halen (D 16.26, tier 5), Romeo Delight by Van Halen (D 16.22, tier 5)

More by Van Halen: Eruption by Van Halen (D 25.57, tier 8), Spanish Fly by Van Halen (D 23.84, tier 7), Spanish Fly by Van Halen (D 23.59, tier 7), I'm The One by Van Halen (D 21.34, tier 7), Hot for Teacher by Van Halen (D 19.66, tier 6)

From Guitar Hero Van Halen, 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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