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Only A Lad by Oingo Boingo (WaveGroup)

A Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks The 80s chart, from the Guitar Hero Encore Rocks the 80s pack.

Harmonix / Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks The 80s / Official / Only a Lad / 1981 / New Wave

On Expert Lead it scores D 16.50, Calc Tier 2, at or above 13% of the site’s Expert Guitar charts. On Expert Bass it scores D 14.07, Calc Tier 2, at or above 58% of the site’s Expert Bass charts.

Difficulty graph of Only A Lad by Oingo Boingo (WaveGroup): notes per second, fret changes per second and their geometric mean over time

PartExpertHardMediumEasy
Lead Tier 216.5013%14.2432%8.6545%5.3162%
Bass Tier 214.0758%13.5376%6.9469%5.3086%

Ranked #26 of 30 songs in Guitar Hero Encore Rocks the 80s on Expert guitar, and #1951 of the 2,257 songs on the site with an Expert guitar chart. 685 notes over 3:57, 2.9 a second on average.

Nearby on Expert guitar: harder: Lunatic Fringe by Red Rider (D 16.50, tier 2), Make It by Aerosmith (D 16.51, tier 2); easier: Cedarwood Road by U2 (D 16.48, tier 2), The Turning by Oasis (D 16.48, tier 2)

In Guitar Hero Encore Rocks the 80s: harder: (Bang Your Head) Metal Health by Quiet Riot (WaveGroup) (D 18.64, tier 3), I Ran (So Far Away) by Flock of Seagulls (D 19.96, tier 3); easier: Turning Japanese by The Vapors (WaveGroup) (D 16.33, tier 2), Shakin' by Eddie Money (WaveGroup) (D 14.98, tier 2)

From Guitar Hero Encore Rocks the 80s, 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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