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Painkiller by Judas Priest

A Rock Band 2 chart.

Harmonix / Rock Band 2 / Official / Painkiller / 1990 / Metal

On Expert Lead it scores D 20.14, Calc Tier 6, at or above 82% of the site’s Expert Guitar charts. On Expert Bass it scores D 14.35, Calc Tier 4, at or above 96% of the site’s Expert Bass charts. On Expert Drums it scores D 20.80, Calc Tier 5, at or above 86% of the site’s Expert Drums charts. On Expert Vocals it scores D 19.34, Calc Tier 2, at or above 36% of the site’s Expert Vocals charts. As a band it places at tier 5, the mean of its two hardest core parts.

Difficulty graph of Painkiller by Judas Priest: notes per second, fret changes per second and their sum over time

PartExpertHardMediumEasy
Lead Tier 620.1482%12.7981%6.6143%3.089%
Bass Tier 414.3596%8.3670%4.5024%2.548%
Drums Tier 520.8086%17.6389%14.3294%11.6495%
Vocals Tier 219.3436%———

Ranked #4 of 84 songs in Rock Band 2 on Expert guitar, and #347 of the 2,257 songs on the site with an Expert guitar chart. 2,029 notes over 6:02, 5.6 a second on average.

Nearby on Expert guitar: harder: Lamb to the Slaughter by I Am Abomination (D 20.14, tier 6), Fossil Genera - A Feed from Cloud Mountain by Between the Buried and Me (D 20.15, tier 6); easier: Spicy by Syncatto (D 20.11, tier 6), Wage Slave (8-Bit Remix) by Lich King (D 20.07, tier 6)

In Rock Band 2: harder: Panic Attack by Dream Theater (D 20.34, tier 6), Visions by Abnormality (D 20.51, tier 6); easier: Shoulder to the Plow by Breaking Wheel (D 18.74, tier 6), Peace Sells by Megadeth (D 18.60, tier 6)

More by Judas Priest: Halls of Valhalla by Judas Priest (D 19.45, tier 6), Painkiller by Judas Priest (D 19.24, tier 6), Electric Eye by Judas Priest (D 16.57, tier 5), The Hellion/Electric Eye by Judas Priest (D 15.48, tier 5)

From Rock Band 2, 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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