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China Grove by The Doobie Brothers

A Rock Band 3 chart.

Harmonix / Rock Band 3 / Official / The Captain and Me / 1973 / Classic Rock

On Expert Lead it scores D 10.82, Calc Tier 3, at or above 27% of the site’s Expert Guitar charts. On Expert Bass it scores D 9.48, Calc Tier 2, at or above 64% of the site’s Expert Bass charts. On Expert Keys it scores D 12.62, Calc Tier 4, at or above 82% of the site’s Expert Keys charts. On Expert Drums it scores D 14.62, Calc Tier 3, at or above 29% of the site’s Expert Drums charts. On Expert Vocals it scores D 28.59, Calc Tier 4, at or above 83% of the site’s Expert Vocals charts. As a band it places at tier 3, the mean of its two hardest core parts.

Difficulty graph of China Grove by The Doobie Brothers: notes per second, fret changes per second and their sum over time

PartExpertHardMediumEasy
Lead Tier 310.8227%8.5631%5.7224%3.139%
Bass Tier 29.4864%7.4751%4.8835%3.0921%
Keys Tier 412.6282%8.7982%5.6571%3.0751%
Drums Tier 314.6229%12.3028%9.4644%8.9278%
Vocals Tier 428.5983%———

Ranked #39 of 82 songs in Rock Band 3 on Expert guitar, and #1633 of the 2,257 songs on the site with an Expert guitar chart. 709 notes over 3:14, 3.7 a second on average.

Nearby on Expert guitar: harder: Wannabe In L.A. by Eagles Of Death Metal (D 10.83, tier 3), Heart Full of Black by Burning Brides (WaveGroup) (D 10.83, tier 3); easier: Flower Man (feat. Camellia) by Toby Fox (D 10.82, tier 3), Im Outta Time by Oasis (D 10.81, tier 3)

In Rock Band 3: harder: I Can See for Miles by The Who (D 10.90, tier 3), Cold as Ice by Foreigner (D 11.00, tier 3); easier: This Bastard's Life by Swingin' Utters (D 10.81, tier 3), Combat Baby by Metric (D 10.70, tier 3)

From Rock Band 3, 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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