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Killing In The Name by Rage Against the Machine

A Guitar Hero: Smash Hits chart, from the Guitar Hero - Smash Hits pack.

Beenox, Neversoft / Guitar Hero: Smash Hits / Official / Rage Against the Machine / 1992 / Alternative

On Expert Lead it scores D 15.39, Calc Tier 5, at or above 62% of the site’s Expert Guitar charts. On Expert Bass it scores D 10.16, Calc Tier 2, at or above 73% of the site’s Expert Bass charts. On Expert Drums it scores D 16.43, Calc Tier 3, at or above 52% of the site’s Expert Drums charts. On Expert Vocals it scores D 3.68, Calc Tier 0, at or above 2% 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 Killing In The Name by Rage Against the Machine: notes per second, fret changes per second and their sum over time

PartExpertHardMediumEasy
Lead Tier 515.3962%10.0956%8.0072%6.4385%
Bass Tier 210.1673%7.8361%6.8182%5.9894%
Drums Tier 316.4352%14.7966%11.5875%7.8064%
Vocals Tier 03.682%———

Ranked #15 of 50 songs in Guitar Hero - Smash Hits on Expert guitar, and #813 of the 2,257 songs on the site with an Expert guitar chart. 1,387 notes over 5:14, 4.4 a second on average.

Nearby on Expert guitar: harder: Paralyzed___ by Structures (D 15.40, tier 5), Start a Band (feat. Keith Urban) by Brad Paisley (D 15.41, tier 5); easier: Bloodlines by Dethklok (D 15.34, tier 5), Prisoner of Society by The Living End (D 15.34, tier 5)

In Guitar Hero - Smash Hits: harder: Back in the Saddle by Aerosmith (D 15.99, tier 5), Electric Eye by Judas Priest (D 16.57, tier 5); easier: Stop! by Jane's Addiction (D 15.25, tier 5), Round and Round by Ratt (D 15.18, tier 5)

More by Rage Against the Machine: Testify by Rage Against the Machine (D 13.48, tier 4), Bulls on Parade by Rage Against the Machine (D 8.92, tier 2)

From Guitar Hero - Smash Hits, 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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