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Black Magic Woman by Santana

A Guitar Hero III: Legends Of Rock chart, from the Guitar Hero III (Individual Songs) pack.

Neversoft / Guitar Hero III: Legends Of Rock / Official / Abraxas / 1970 / Blues Rock

On Expert Lead it scores D 11.59, Calc Tier 3, at or above 35% of the site’s Expert Guitar charts. On Expert Bass it scores D 8.57, Calc Tier 2, at or above 49% of the site’s Expert Bass charts. As a band it places at tier 2, the mean of its two hardest core parts.

Difficulty graph of Black Magic Woman by Santana: notes per second, fret changes per second and their sum over time

PartExpertHardMediumEasy
Lead Tier 311.5935%10.2157%6.5241%4.7745%
Bass Tier 28.5749%8.5173%8.1695%6.4296%

Ranked #48 of 75 songs in Guitar Hero III (Individual Songs) on Expert guitar, and #1453 of the 2,257 songs on the site with an Expert guitar chart. 728 notes over 5:14, 2.3 a second on average.

Nearby on Expert guitar: harder: Scumbag Blues by Them Crooked Vultures (D 11.60, tier 3), how will i rest in peace if i'm buried by a highway?// by KennyHoopla (D 11.62, tier 3); easier: Jukebox Hero by Foreigner (D 11.58, tier 3), Woman From Tokyo ('99 Remix) by Deep Purple (D 11.58, tier 3)

In Guitar Hero III (Individual Songs): harder: Talk Dirty to Me by Poison (D 11.67, tier 3), Helicopter by Bloc Party (D 11.76, tier 3); easier: Minus Celsius by Backyard Babies (D 11.46, tier 3), Rock & Roll All Nite by KISS (Steve Ouimette) (D 11.37, tier 3)

More by Santana: No One To Depend On (Live) by Santana (D 17.57, tier 6)

From Guitar Hero III (Individual Songs), 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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