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Spirit in the Sky by Norman Greenbaum

A Rock Band 2 chart.

Harmonix / Rock Band 2 / Official / Spirit in the Sky / 1969 / Classic Rock

On Expert Lead it scores D 10.32, Calc Tier 3, at or above 22% of the site’s Expert Guitar charts. On Expert Bass it scores D 4.70, Calc Tier 0, at or above 2% of the site’s Expert Bass charts. On Expert Drums it scores D 13.70, Calc Tier 2, at or above 19% of the site’s Expert Drums charts. On Expert Vocals it scores D 17.93, Calc Tier 2, at or above 28% 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 Spirit in the Sky by Norman Greenbaum: notes per second, fret changes per second and their sum over time

PartExpertHardMediumEasy
Lead Tier 310.3222%8.2225%5.2114%3.7820%
Bass Tier 04.702%3.721%3.718%2.9518%
Drums Tier 213.7019%11.3617%6.557%4.104%
Vocals Tier 217.9328%———

Ranked #53 of 84 songs in Rock Band 2 on Expert guitar, and #1759 of the 2,257 songs on the site with an Expert guitar chart. 779 notes over 4:13, 3.1 a second on average.

Nearby on Expert guitar: harder: She Sells Sanctuary by The Cult (D 10.32, tier 3), One Way or Another by Blondie (D 10.32, tier 3); easier: Sweet Sacrifice by Evanescence (D 10.32, tier 3), Santeria by Sublime (D 10.31, tier 3)

In Rock Band 2: harder: Eye of the Tiger by Survivor (D 10.38, tier 3), Go Your Own Way by Fleetwood Mac (D 10.57, tier 3); easier: De-Luxe by Lush (D 10.30, tier 3), One Way or Another by Blondie (D 10.27, tier 3)

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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