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Misirlou by Dick Dale (WaveGroup)

A Guitar Hero II chart.

Harmonix / Guitar Hero II / Official / Single / 1962 / Surf Rock

On Expert Lead it scores D 17.66, Calc Tier 6, at or above 73% of the site’s Expert Guitar charts. On Expert Bass it scores D 9.62, Calc Tier 2, at or above 66% of the site’s Expert Bass charts. As a band it places at tier 4, the mean of its two hardest core parts.

Difficulty graph of Misirlou by Dick Dale (WaveGroup): notes per second, fret changes per second and their sum over time

PartExpertHardMediumEasy
Lead Tier 617.6673%13.4284%7.0152%4.9250%
Bass Tier 29.6266%7.3348%4.6026%4.1653%

Ranked #10 of 91 songs in Guitar Hero II on Expert guitar, and #560 of the 2,257 songs on the site with an Expert guitar chart. 1,221 notes over 2:37, 7.8 a second on average.

Nearby on Expert guitar: harder: Bury The Hatchet by Protest The Hero (D 17.66, tier 6), Soul of Plasma, Heart of Steel by petet (D 17.68, tier 6); easier: M79 by Vampire Weekend (D 17.63, tier 6), Persistence in Existence by I Am Abomination (D 17.63, tier 6)

In Guitar Hero II: harder: The Trooper by Iron Maiden (WaveGroup) (D 17.90, tier 6), Institutionalized by Suicidal Tendencies (WaveGroup) (D 17.97, tier 6); easier: Less Talk More Rokk by FreezePop (D 17.00, tier 5), Less Talk More Rokk (Co-op) by FreezePop (D 16.95, tier 5)

From Guitar Hero II, 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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