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Iron Man by Black Sabbath (WaveGroup)

A Guitar Hero chart.

Harmonix / Guitar Hero / Official / Paranoid / 1970 / Heavy Metal

On Expert Lead it scores D 10.01, Calc Tier 2, at or above 18% of the site’s Expert Guitar charts.

Difficulty graph of Iron Man by Black Sabbath (WaveGroup): notes per second, fret changes per second and their sum over time

PartExpertHardMediumEasy
Lead Tier 210.0118%8.8136%5.8928%4.8447%

Ranked #37 of 56 songs in Guitar Hero on Expert guitar, and #1832 of the 2,257 songs on the site with an Expert guitar chart. 573 notes over 4:04, 2.3 a second on average.

Nearby on Expert guitar: harder: Man-Sized Wreath by R.E.M. (D 10.02, tier 2), Young Cardinals by Alexisonfire (D 10.03, tier 2); easier: Conventional Lover by Speck (D 10.00, tier 2), I'm Shipping Up to Boston by Dropkick Murphys (D 10.00, tier 2)

In Guitar Hero: harder: Infected by Bad Religion (WaveGroup) (D 10.11, tier 2), Story of My Love by The Model Sons (D 10.15, tier 2); easier: Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand (WaveGroup) (D 9.83, tier 2), I Wanna Be Sedated by The Ramones (WaveGroup) (D 9.81, tier 2)

More by Black Sabbath (WaveGroup): War Pigs by Black Sabbath (WaveGroup) (D 13.13, tier 4), Paranoid by Black Sabbath (WaveGroup) (D 11.45, tier 3)

From Guitar Hero, 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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