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Carry On Wayward Son by Kansas (WaveGroup)

A Guitar Hero II chart.

Harmonix / Guitar Hero II / Official / Leftoverture / 1976 / Progressive Rock

On Expert Lead it scores D 14.16, Calc Tier 4, at or above 55% of the site’s Expert Guitar charts. On Expert Bass it scores D 9.91, Calc Tier 2, at or above 70% of the site’s Expert Bass charts. As a band it places at tier 3, the mean of its two hardest core parts.

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

PartExpertHardMediumEasy
Lead Tier 414.1655%11.6472%6.7246%4.9852%
Bass Tier 29.9170%9.6787%6.5478%5.5288%

Ranked #29 of 91 songs in Guitar Hero II on Expert guitar, and #988 of the 2,257 songs on the site with an Expert guitar chart. 965 notes over 5:15, 3.1 a second on average.

Nearby on Expert guitar: harder: Suffer No Fool by Power Trip (D 14.17, tier 4), Carry on Wayward Son by Kansas (D 14.17, tier 4); easier: Dez Moines by The Devil Wears Prada (D 14.16, tier 4), Nothin' but a Good Time by Poison (D 14.16, tier 4)

In Guitar Hero II: harder: Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo by Rick Derringer (WaveGroup) (D 14.33, tier 4), Who Was In My Room Last Night? (Co-op) by The Butthole Surfers (WaveGroup) (D 14.53, tier 4); easier: Jessica by The Allman Brothers Band (WaveGroup) (D 14.13, tier 4), Crazy on You by Heart (WaveGroup) (D 14.05, tier 4)

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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