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Heart Shaped Box by Nirvana

A Guitar Hero: Smash Hits chart, from the Guitar Hero - Smash Hits pack.

Beenox, Neversoft / Guitar Hero: Smash Hits / Official / In Utero / 1993 / Grunge

On Expert Lead it scores D 17.77, Calc Tier 2, at or above 16% of the site’s Expert Guitar charts. On Expert Bass it scores D 17.47, Calc Tier 2, at or above 71% of the site’s Expert Bass charts. On Expert Drums it scores D 13.43, Calc Tier 3, at or above 17% of the site’s Expert Drums charts. On Expert Vocals it scores D 7.66, Calc Tier 2, at or above 40% of the site’s Expert Vocals charts.

Difficulty graph of Heart Shaped Box by Nirvana: notes per second, fret changes per second and their geometric mean over time

PartExpertHardMediumEasy
Lead Tier 217.7716%15.2837%8.5944%4.5049%
Bass Tier 217.4771%9.8754%6.7667%4.9082%
Drums Tier 313.4317%12.1225%7.0010%4.9210%
Vocals Tier 27.6640%

Ranked #48 of 50 songs in Guitar Hero - Smash Hits on Expert guitar, and #1894 of the 2,257 songs on the site with an Expert guitar chart. 844 notes over 4:34, 3.1 a second on average.

Nearby on Expert guitar: harder: Eureka, I've Found Love by The Upper Crust (D 17.77, tier 2), Get Free by The Vines (D 17.79, tier 2); easier: Rockin' in the Free World by Neil Young (D 17.77, tier 2), The One I Love by R.E.M. (D 17.75, tier 2)

In Guitar Hero - Smash Hits: harder: Unsung by Helmet (D 18.61, tier 3), Killer Queen by Queen (D 18.69, tier 3); easier: Rock and Roll All Night by KISS (D 14.67, tier 2), I Love Rock N' Roll by Joan Jett And The Blackhearts (D 10.11, tier 1)

More by Nirvana: Negative Creep by Nirvana (D 29.30, tier 4), Very Ape by Nirvana (D 28.88, tier 4), Stay Away by Nirvana (D 27.83, tier 3), Drain You by Nirvana (D 24.71, tier 3), Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana (D 23.12, tier 3)

From Guitar Hero - Smash Hits, 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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