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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 9.27, Calc Tier 2, at or above 13% of the site’s Expert Guitar charts. On Expert Bass it scores D 9.36, Calc Tier 2, at or above 62% of the site’s Expert Bass charts. On Expert Drums it scores D 13.43, Calc Tier 2, at or above 17% of the site’s Expert Drums charts. On Expert Vocals it scores D 20.06, Calc Tier 2, at or above 41% of the site’s Expert Vocals charts. As a band it places at tier 2, the mean of its two hardest core parts.

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

PartExpertHardMediumEasy
Lead Tier 29.2713%8.5832%6.5742%4.8547%
Bass Tier 29.3662%7.0640%6.0264%5.1681%
Drums Tier 213.4317%12.1225%7.0011%4.9211%
Vocals Tier 220.0641%———

Ranked #48 of 50 songs in Guitar Hero - Smash Hits on Expert guitar, and #1961 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 9.27, tier 2), Silver by Nirvana (D 9.29, tier 2); easier: Judith by A Perfect Circle (D 9.27, tier 2), Bag It Up by Oasis (D 9.25, tier 2)

In Guitar Hero - Smash Hits: harder: Killer Queen by Queen (D 9.48, tier 2), Unsung by Helmet (D 9.95, tier 2); easier: Rock and Roll All Night by KISS (D 8.43, tier 1), I Love Rock N' Roll by Joan Jett And The Blackhearts (D 7.36, tier 1)

More by Nirvana: Stay Away by Nirvana (D 12.33, tier 4), Negative Creep by Nirvana (D 11.54, tier 3), Drain You by Nirvana (D 11.53, tier 3), Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana (D 11.12, tier 3), You Know You're Right by Nirvana (D 10.73, 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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