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Black Hole Sun by Soundgarden

A Rock Band chart, from the Rock Band 1 pack.

Harmonix / Rock Band / Official / Superunknown / 1994 / Rock

On Expert Lead it scores D 11.10, Calc Tier 3, at or above 30% of the site’s Expert Guitar charts. On Expert Bass it scores D 5.98, Calc Tier 0, at or above 8% of the site’s Expert Bass charts. On Expert Drums it scores D 15.23, Calc Tier 3, at or above 37% of the site’s Expert Drums charts. On Expert Vocals it scores D 23.02, Calc Tier 3, at or above 58% 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 Black Hole Sun by Soundgarden: notes per second, fret changes per second and their sum over time

PartExpertHardMediumEasy
Lead Tier 311.1030%8.1324%5.1012%3.3913%
Bass Tier 05.988%5.4511%3.042%2.6510%
Drums Tier 315.2337%12.5230%8.8234%8.2370%
Vocals Tier 323.0258%———

Ranked #33 of 62 songs in Rock Band 1 on Expert guitar, and #1575 of the 2,257 songs on the site with an Expert guitar chart. 805 notes over 5:29, 2.4 a second on average.

Nearby on Expert guitar: harder: Somebody Told Me by The Killers (D 11.11, tier 3), Solid Grey by Car Bomb (D 11.11, tier 3); easier: All My Life by Foo Fighters (D 11.09, tier 3), (Bang Your Head) Metal Health by Quiet Riot (WaveGroup) (D 11.08, tier 3)

In Rock Band 1: harder: Dead on Arrival by Fall Out Boy (D 11.16, tier 3), Suffragette City by David Bowie (D 11.34, tier 3); easier: The Hand That Feeds by Nine Inch Nails (D 10.72, tier 3), Reptilia by The Strokes (D 10.71, tier 3)

More by Soundgarden: Superunknown by Soundgarden (D 15.73, tier 5), Spoonman by Soundgarden (D 13.62, tier 4), Black Rain by Soundgarden (D 11.78, tier 3)

From Rock Band 1, 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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