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Eruption by Van Halen

A Guitar Hero: Van Halen chart, from the Guitar Hero Van Halen pack.

Neversoft / Guitar Hero: Van Halen / Official / Van Halen / 1978 / Rock

On Expert Lead it scores D 25.57, Calc Tier 8, at or above 91% of the site’s Expert Guitar charts. On Expert Bass it scores D 1.48, Calc Tier 0, at or above 0% of the site’s Expert Bass charts. On Expert Drums it scores D 5.84, Calc Tier 0, at or above 0% of the site’s Expert Drums charts. As a band it places at tier 4, the mean of its two hardest core parts.

Difficulty graph of Eruption by Van Halen: notes per second, fret changes per second and their sum over time

PartExpertHardMediumEasy
Lead Tier 825.5791%17.8796%10.6993%5.5269%
Bass Tier 01.480%1.240%1.390%1.160%
Drums Tier 05.840%4.990%3.090%1.350%

Ranked #1 of 47 songs in Guitar Hero Van Halen on Expert guitar, and #153 of the 2,257 songs on the site with an Expert guitar chart. 813 notes over 1:35, 8.6 a second on average.

Nearby on Expert guitar: harder: Wandering by A_Rival (D 25.60, tier 8), Swatting Flies by Bumblefoot (D 25.65, tier 8); easier: Crossmythos Rhapsodia by Acotto, Potwi (D 25.41, tier 8), Seduction of Life by Richard Andersson's Space Odyssey (D 25.40, tier 8)

In Guitar Hero Van Halen: easier: Spanish Fly by Van Halen (D 23.59, tier 7), I'm The One by Van Halen (D 21.34, tier 7)

More by Van Halen: Spanish Fly by Van Halen (D 23.84, tier 7), Spanish Fly by Van Halen (D 23.59, tier 7), I'm The One by Van Halen (D 21.34, tier 7), Hot for Teacher by Van Halen (D 19.66, tier 6), Hot For Teacher by Van Halen (D 18.74, tier 6)

From Guitar Hero Van Halen, 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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