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Beat It by Michael Jackson

A Guitar Hero: World Tour chart, from the Guitar Hero World Tour pack.

Neversoft / Guitar Hero: World Tour / Official / Thriller / 1983 / Pop Rock

On Expert Lead it scores D 14.18, Calc Tier 4, at or above 55% of the site’s Expert Guitar charts. On Expert Bass it scores D 6.02, Calc Tier 0, at or above 8% of the site’s Expert Bass charts. On Expert Drums it scores D 12.42, Calc Tier 2, at or above 10% of the site’s Expert Drums charts. On Expert Vocals it scores D 28.60, Calc Tier 4, at or above 83% of the site’s Expert Vocals charts. As a band it places at tier 3, the mean of its two hardest core parts.

Difficulty graph of Beat It by Michael Jackson: notes per second, fret changes per second and their sum over time

PartExpertHardMediumEasy
Lead Tier 414.1855%9.5748%5.6121%3.7219%
Bass Tier 06.028%5.078%3.454%3.2124%
Drums Tier 212.4210%11.8222%7.5717%5.6924%
Vocals Tier 428.6083%———

Ranked #25 of 86 songs in Guitar Hero World Tour on Expert guitar, and #983 of the 2,257 songs on the site with an Expert guitar chart. 815 notes over 4:30, 3.0 a second on average.

Nearby on Expert guitar: harder: La Bamba by Los Lobos (D 14.20, tier 4), The End by Bullet for My Valentine (D 14.21, tier 4); easier: Cherub Rock by The Smashing Pumpkins (D 14.18, tier 4), Panama by Van Halen (D 14.18, tier 4)

In Guitar Hero World Tour: harder: La Bamba by Los Lobos (D 14.20, tier 4), Love Removal Machine by The Cult (D 14.41, tier 4); easier: Soul Doubt by NOFX (D 13.91, tier 4), Spiderwebs by No Doubt (D 13.88, tier 4)

More by Michael Jackson: Speed Demon by Michael Jackson (D 17.22, tier 5)

From Guitar Hero World Tour, 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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