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Black Dog (Live) by Led Zeppelin

A Guitar Hero 5 chart.

Neversoft / Guitar Hero 5 / Official / The Song Remains the Same / 1973 / Hard Rock

On Expert Lead it scores D 16.24, Calc Tier 5, at or above 66% of the site’s Expert Guitar charts. On Expert Bass it scores D 9.64, Calc Tier 2, at or above 67% of the site’s Expert Bass charts. On Expert Drums it scores D 18.18, Calc Tier 4, at or above 70% of the site’s Expert Drums charts. On Expert Vocals it scores D 30.65, Calc Tier 5, at or above 88% 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 Black Dog (Live) by Led Zeppelin: notes per second, fret changes per second and their sum over time

PartExpertHardMediumEasy
Lead Tier 516.2466%0.320%0.320%0.320%
Bass Tier 29.6467%—0.320%0.320%
Drums Tier 418.1870%0.320%0.320%0.320%
Vocals Tier 530.6588%———

Ranked #9 of 90 songs in Guitar Hero 5 on Expert guitar, and #718 of the 2,257 songs on the site with an Expert guitar chart. 1,196 notes over 5:29, 3.6 a second on average.

Nearby on Expert guitar: harder: Little Guitars by Van Halen (D 16.26, tier 5), St. Louis by Moon Hooch (D 16.27, tier 5); easier: Carry Me Home by The Living End (WaveGroup) (D 16.24, tier 5), Sacred & Wild (Powerwolf cover) by Epica (D 16.24, tier 5)

In Guitar Hero 5: harder: 2 Minutes To Midnight by Iron Maiden (D 16.49, tier 5), No One To Depend On (Live) by Santana (D 17.57, tier 6); easier: Sultans Of Swing by Dire Straits (D 15.92, tier 5), Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting) by Elton John (D 15.82, tier 5)

From Guitar Hero 5, 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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