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Shoulder to the Plow by Breaking Wheel

A Rock Band 2 chart.

Harmonix / Rock Band 2 / Official / Breaking Wheel / 2008 / Metal

On Expert Lead it scores D 18.74, Calc Tier 6, at or above 78% of the site’s Expert Guitar charts. On Expert Bass it scores D 13.47, Calc Tier 4, at or above 94% of the site’s Expert Bass charts. On Expert Drums it scores D 22.20, Calc Tier 5, at or above 91% of the site’s Expert Drums charts. On Expert Vocals it scores D 9.68, Calc Tier 0, at or above 4% of the site’s Expert Vocals charts. As a band it places at tier 5, the mean of its two hardest core parts.

Difficulty graph of Shoulder to the Plow by Breaking Wheel: notes per second, fret changes per second and their sum over time

PartExpertHardMediumEasy
Lead Tier 618.7478%9.6850%5.4518%4.0325%
Bass Tier 413.4794%8.0866%4.8032%4.2857%
Drums Tier 522.2091%18.0092%12.7085%10.8492%
Vocals Tier 09.684%———

Ranked #5 of 84 songs in Rock Band 2 on Expert guitar, and #453 of the 2,257 songs on the site with an Expert guitar chart. 1,631 notes over 4:52, 5.6 a second on average.

Nearby on Expert guitar: harder: Hot For Teacher by Van Halen (D 18.74, tier 6), Bark At The Moon by Ozzy Osbourne (WaveGroup) (D 18.75, tier 6); easier: Some Mutts (Can't Be Muzzled) by Amyl and The Sniffers (D 18.74, tier 6), Bury the Hatchet by Protest the Hero (D 18.73, tier 6)

In Rock Band 2: harder: Painkiller by Judas Priest (D 20.14, tier 6), Panic Attack by Dream Theater (D 20.34, tier 6); easier: Peace Sells by Megadeth (D 18.60, tier 6), Battery by Metallica (D 18.15, tier 6)

More by Breaking Wheel: One For the Road by Breaking Wheel (D 13.14, tier 4)

From Rock Band 2, 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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