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Parabola by Tool

A Guitar Hero: World Tour chart, from the Guitar Hero World Tour pack.

Neversoft / Guitar Hero: World Tour / Official / Lateralus / 2002 / Prog Rock

On Expert Lead it scores D 11.88, Calc Tier 3, at or above 37% of the site’s Expert Guitar charts. On Expert Bass it scores D 12.68, Calc Tier 4, at or above 91% of the site’s Expert Bass charts. On Expert Drums it scores D 21.40, Calc Tier 5, at or above 88% of the site’s Expert Drums charts. On Expert Vocals it scores D 26.87, Calc Tier 4, at or above 78% of the site’s Expert Vocals charts. As a band it places at tier 4, the mean of its two hardest core parts.

Difficulty graph of Parabola by Tool: notes per second, fret changes per second and their sum over time

PartExpertHardMediumEasy
Lead Tier 311.8837%8.2125%6.2135%4.1728%
Bass Tier 412.6891%9.3483%7.6892%5.0678%
Drums Tier 521.4088%14.2458%11.5174%7.4859%
Vocals Tier 426.8778%———

Ranked #41 of 86 songs in Guitar Hero World Tour on Expert guitar, and #1394 of the 2,257 songs on the site with an Expert guitar chart. 1,155 notes over 6:00, 3.2 a second on average.

Nearby on Expert guitar: harder: Suspicious Minds by Elvis Presley (D 11.89, tier 3), Rock Lobster by The B-52's (D 11.89, tier 3); easier: Back Round by Wolfmother (D 11.86, tier 3), Bright Light Fright by Aerosmith (D 11.86, tier 3)

In Guitar Hero World Tour: harder: Kick Out the Jams by MC5's Wayne Kramer (D 11.90, tier 3), One Armed Scissor by At the Drive-In (D 12.18, tier 4); easier: Lazy Eye by Silversun Pickups (D 11.82, tier 3), Livin' on a Prayer by Bon Jovi (D 11.70, tier 3)

More by Tool: Vicarious by Tool (D 15.83, tier 5), Schism by Tool (D 12.95, tier 4)

From Guitar Hero World Tour, 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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