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Carry On Wayward Son by Kansas

A Guitar Hero: Smash Hits chart, from the Guitar Hero - Smash Hits pack.

Beenox, Neversoft / Guitar Hero: Smash Hits / Official / Leftoverture / 1976 / Progressive

On Expert Lead it scores D 14.98, Calc Tier 5, at or above 60% of the site’s Expert Guitar charts. On Expert Bass it scores D 9.35, Calc Tier 2, at or above 62% of the site’s Expert Bass charts. On Expert Drums it scores D 15.16, Calc Tier 3, at or above 36% of the site’s Expert Drums charts. On Expert Vocals it scores D 25.16, Calc Tier 4, at or above 70% of the site’s Expert Vocals charts. As a band it places at tier 4, the mean of its two hardest core parts.

Difficulty graph of Carry On Wayward Son by Kansas: notes per second, fret changes per second and their sum over time

PartExpertHardMediumEasy
Lead Tier 514.9860%10.6963%7.8469%5.9679%
Bass Tier 29.3562%8.2669%7.1086%5.8492%
Drums Tier 315.1636%14.1957%11.8578%6.0033%
Vocals Tier 425.1670%———

Ranked #19 of 50 songs in Guitar Hero - Smash Hits on Expert guitar, and #857 of the 2,257 songs on the site with an Expert guitar chart. 993 notes over 5:16, 3.1 a second on average.

Nearby on Expert guitar: harder: Love Me Like a Reptile by Motorhead (D 15.01, tier 5), Who Was In My Room Last Night? by The Butthole Surfers (WaveGroup) (D 15.03, tier 5); easier: Round and Round by Ratt (D 14.97, tier 5), Where'd You Go? by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones (D 14.96, tier 5)

In Guitar Hero - Smash Hits: harder: Beenox Logo by François Jalbert (D 15.04, tier 5), Round and Round by Ratt (D 15.18, tier 5); easier: No One Knows by Queens of the Stone Age (D 14.48, tier 4), Godzilla by Blue Oyster Cult (D 14.33, tier 4)

More by Kansas: Carry on Wayward Son by Kansas (D 14.17, tier 4)

From Guitar Hero - Smash Hits, 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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