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Wave of Mutilation by Pixies

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

Harmonix / Rock Band / Official / Doolittle / 1989 / Alternative

On Expert Lead it scores D 7.04, Calc Tier 0, at or above 2% of the site’s Expert Guitar charts. On Expert Bass it scores D 7.36, Calc Tier 1, at or above 26% of the site’s Expert Bass charts. On Expert Drums it scores D 14.58, Calc Tier 3, at or above 29% of the site’s Expert Drums charts. On Expert Vocals it scores D 14.56, Calc Tier 1, at or above 14% 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 Wave of Mutilation by Pixies: notes per second, fret changes per second and their sum over time

PartExpertHardMediumEasy
Lead Tier 07.042%5.843%4.808%3.6518%
Bass Tier 17.3626%6.4127%3.647%3.8443%
Drums Tier 314.5829%12.2427%10.2755%7.3156%
Vocals Tier 114.5614%———

Ranked #61 of 62 songs in Rock Band 1 on Expert guitar, and #2196 of the 2,257 songs on the site with an Expert guitar chart. 273 notes over 2:01, 2.3 a second on average.

Nearby on Expert guitar: harder: That's What You Get by Paramore (D 7.11, tier 1), Maps by Yeah Yeah Yeahs (D 7.14, tier 1); easier: Nine in the Afternoon by Panic! At the Disco (D 7.03, tier 0), Violet Hill by Coldplay (D 7.00, tier 0)

In Rock Band 1: harder: Maps by Yeah Yeah Yeahs (D 7.14, tier 1), Say It Ain't So by Weezer (D 7.28, tier 1); easier: I Think I'm Paranoid by Garbage (D 6.81, tier 0)

More by Pixies: The Sad Punk by Pixies (D 9.04, tier 2), Debaser by Pixies (D 8.44, tier 1), Monkey Gone to Heaven by Pixies (D 6.67, tier 0)

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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