Paranoid by Black Sabbath (WaveGroup)
A Rock Band chart, from the Rock Band 1 pack.
Harmonix / Rock Band / Official / Paranoid / 1970 / Metal
On Expert Lead it scores D 11.45, Calc Tier 3, at or above 33% of the site’s Expert Guitar charts. On Expert Bass it scores D 9.81, Calc Tier 2, at or above 69% of the site’s Expert Bass charts. On Expert Drums it scores D 16.67, Calc Tier 4, at or above 55% of the site’s Expert Drums charts. On Expert Vocals it scores D 9.09, Calc Tier 0, at or above 3% of the site’s Expert Vocals charts. As a band it places at tier 3, the mean of its two hardest core parts.
| Part | Expert | Hard | Medium | Easy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lead Tier 3 | 11.4533% | 9.2543% | 7.6967% | 4.0826% |
| Bass Tier 2 | 9.8169% | 8.6975% | 7.6091% | 4.4161% |
| Drums Tier 4 | 16.6755% | 13.9955% | 12.5184% | 10.0587% |
| Vocals Tier 0 | 9.093% | — | — | — |
Ranked #29 of 62 songs in Rock Band 1 on Expert guitar, and #1493 of the 2,257 songs on the site with an Expert guitar chart. 774 notes over 2:57, 4.4 a second on average.
Nearby on Expert guitar: harder: Lasso by Phoenix (D 11.45, tier 3), Minus Celsius by Backyard Babies (D 11.46, tier 3); easier: Still Waiting by Sum 41 (D 11.45, tier 3), On the Road Again (Live) by Willie Nelson (D 11.43, tier 3)
In Rock Band 1: harder: Epic by Faith No More (D 11.77, tier 3), Wanted Dead or Alive by Bon Jovi (D 11.78, tier 3); easier: Main Offender by The Hives (D 11.34, tier 3), Suffragette City by David Bowie (D 11.34, tier 3)
More by Black Sabbath (WaveGroup): War Pigs by Black Sabbath (WaveGroup) (D 13.13, tier 4), Iron Man by Black Sabbath (WaveGroup) (D 10.01, 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.