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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 9.22, Calc Tier 2, at or above 12% of the site’s Expert Guitar charts. On Expert Bass it scores D 9.70, Calc Tier 2, at or above 67% of the site’s Expert Bass charts. As a band it places at tier 2, the mean of its two hardest core parts.

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

PartExpertHardMediumEasy
Lead Tier 29.2212%8.6232%6.4640%5.2160%
Bass Tier 29.7067%9.4884%6.1166%5.3084%

Ranked #27 of 30 songs in Guitar Hero Encore Rocks the 80s on Expert guitar, and #1970 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: Linoleum by NOFX (D 9.22, tier 2), Hungry Like The Wolf by Duran Duran (D 9.23, tier 2); easier: Dance the Night Away by Van Halen (D 9.21, tier 2), Turn it Around by Lucius (D 9.21, tier 2)

In Guitar Hero Encore Rocks the 80s: harder: Turning Japanese by The Vapors (WaveGroup) (D 9.35, tier 2), Balls to the Wall by Accept (WaveGroup) (D 10.49, tier 3); easier: Shakin' by Eddie Money (WaveGroup) (D 8.93, tier 2), Heat Of The Moment by Asia (WaveGroup) (D 8.38, tier 1)

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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