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Blitzkrieg Bop by Ramones

A Rock Band chart, from the Rock Band 1 pack.

Harmonix / Rock Band / Official / Ramones / 1976 / Punk

On Expert Lead it scores D 8.35, Calc Tier 1, at or above 7% of the site’s Expert Guitar charts. On Expert Bass it scores D 6.91, Calc Tier 0, at or above 19% of the site’s Expert Bass charts. On Expert Drums it scores D 13.90, Calc Tier 2, at or above 22% of the site’s Expert Drums charts. On Expert Vocals it scores D 11.60, Calc Tier 0, at or above 6% 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 Blitzkrieg Bop by Ramones: notes per second, fret changes per second and their sum over time

PartExpertHardMediumEasy
Lead Tier 18.357%6.394%4.9310%3.9924%
Bass Tier 06.9119%6.9137%4.2918%3.0019%
Drums Tier 213.9022%10.409%9.5845%10.1788%
Vocals Tier 011.606%———

Ranked #49 of 62 songs in Rock Band 1 on Expert guitar, and #2094 of the 2,257 songs on the site with an Expert guitar chart. 571 notes over 2:13, 4.3 a second on average.

Nearby on Expert guitar: harder: I Was Wrong by Social Distortion (D 8.37, tier 1), Yellow by Coldplay (D 8.38, tier 1); easier: Orange Crush by R.E.M. (D 8.35, tier 1), Soy Bomb (Co-op) by Honest Bob and the Factory-to-Dealer Incentives (D 8.35, tier 1)

In Rock Band 1: harder: Go with the Flow by Queens of the Stone Age (D 8.46, tier 1), Learn to Fly by Foo Fighters (D 8.79, tier 2); easier: Orange Crush by R.E.M. (D 8.35, tier 1), Next to You by The Police (D 8.30, tier 1)

More by Ramones: I Wanna Be Sedated by Ramones (D 10.14, tier 2)

From Rock Band 1, 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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