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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 41.94, Calc Tier 4, at or above 58% of the site’s Expert Guitar charts. On Expert Bass it scores D 15.09, 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 35% of the site’s Expert Drums charts. On Expert Vocals it scores D 13.09, Calc Tier 4, at or above 87% of the site’s Expert Vocals charts.

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

PartExpertHardMediumEasy
Lead Tier 441.9458%21.5362%11.7467%6.8678%
Bass Tier 215.0962%12.1470%9.4287%6.0691%
Drums Tier 315.1635%14.1957%11.8578%6.0033%
Vocals Tier 413.0987%

Ranked #19 of 50 songs in Guitar Hero - Smash Hits on Expert guitar, and #905 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: Bad Reputation by Thin Lizzy (WaveGroup) (D 41.94, tier 4), Train Kept A-Rollin' by Aerosmith (WaveGroup) (D 41.95, tier 4); easier: Surrender by Polkadot Stingray (D 41.88, tier 4), The Returner by The Ghost Inside (D 41.87, tier 4)

In Guitar Hero - Smash Hits: harder: Killing In The Name by Rage Against the Machine (D 43.64, tier 4), Stop! by Jane's Addiction (D 43.96, tier 4); easier: No One Knows by Queens of the Stone Age (D 41.80, tier 4), Freya by The Sword (D 39.76, tier 4)

More by Kansas: Carry on Wayward Son by Kansas (D 37.82, tier 4)

From Guitar Hero - Smash Hits, whose every song is ranked by difficulty on its page.

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