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Whip It by Devo

A Band Hero chart.

Neversoft / Band Hero / Official / Freedom of Choice / 1980 / New Wave

On Expert Lead it scores D 8.15, Calc Tier 1, at or above 6% of the site’s Expert Guitar charts. On Expert Bass it scores D 7.34, Calc Tier 1, at or above 25% of the site’s Expert Bass charts. On Expert Drums it scores D 15.84, Calc Tier 3, at or above 44% of the site’s Expert Drums charts. On Expert Vocals it scores D 14.09, Calc Tier 1, at or above 12% of the site’s Expert Vocals charts. As a band it places at tier 2, the mean of its two hardest core parts.

Difficulty graph of Whip It by Devo: notes per second, fret changes per second and their sum over time

PartExpertHardMediumEasy
Lead Tier 18.156%7.009%5.7625%4.7845%
Bass Tier 17.3425%6.5229%5.6655%4.3358%
Drums Tier 315.8444%13.2342%10.6462%9.0680%
Vocals Tier 114.0912%———

Ranked #49 of 65 songs in Band Hero on Expert guitar, and #2123 of the 2,257 songs on the site with an Expert guitar chart. 470 notes over 2:38, 3.0 a second on average.

Nearby on Expert guitar: harder: Another Way to Die by Jack White & Alicia Keys (D 8.18, tier 1), Mississippi Queen by Mountain (WaveGroup) (D 8.20, tier 1); easier: Ex-Girlfriend by No Doubt (D 8.14, tier 1), Get Off Your High Horse Lady by Oasis (D 8.13, tier 1)

In Band Hero: harder: Take Back the City by Snow Patrol (D 8.22, tier 1), Like Whoa by Aly & AJ (D 8.23, tier 1); easier: Oh Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison (D 8.10, tier 1), Lips of an Angel by Hinder (D 8.09, tier 1)

More by Devo: Uncontrollable Urge by Devo (D 11.48, tier 3), Whip It by Devo (D 8.47, tier 1)

From Band Hero, 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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