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Ballroom Blitz by Sweet (WaveGroup)

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

Harmonix / Rock Band / Official / Desolation Boulevard / 1974 / Glam

On Expert Lead it scores D 12.96, Calc Tier 4, at or above 46% of the site’s Expert Guitar charts. On Expert Bass it scores D 9.24, Calc Tier 2, at or above 60% of the site’s Expert Bass charts. On Expert Drums it scores D 16.17, Calc Tier 3, at or above 49% of the site’s Expert Drums charts. On Expert Vocals it scores D 21.61, Calc Tier 3, at or above 49% 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 Ballroom Blitz by Sweet (WaveGroup): notes per second, fret changes per second and their sum over time

PartExpertHardMediumEasy
Lead Tier 412.9646%9.9353%5.9429%4.4936%
Bass Tier 29.2460%9.6086%6.9884%3.4833%
Drums Tier 316.1749%15.5373%11.5475%10.5190%
Vocals Tier 321.6149%———

Ranked #17 of 62 songs in Rock Band 1 on Expert guitar, and #1188 of the 2,257 songs on the site with an Expert guitar chart. 873 notes over 4:02, 3.6 a second on average.

Nearby on Expert guitar: harder: Ain't Nothin But A Good Time by Poison (WaveGroup) (D 12.97, tier 4), Flannigan's Ball by Dropkick Murphys (D 12.98, tier 4); easier: Message In A Bottle by The Police (WaveGroup) (D 12.96, tier 4), Search and Destroy by Iggy Pop and the Stooges (WaveGroup) (D 12.96, tier 4)

In Rock Band 1: harder: Won't Get Fooled Again by The Who (D 13.00, tier 4), Nightmare by Crooked X (D 13.10, tier 4); easier: Welcome Home by Coheed and Cambria (D 12.85, tier 4), Can't Let Go by Death of the Cool (D 12.67, tier 4)

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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