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Whip It by Devo

A Rock Band 3 chart.

Harmonix / Rock Band 3 / Official / Freedom of Choice / 1980 / New Wave

On Expert Lead it scores D 8.47, Calc Tier 1, at or above 8% of the site’s Expert Guitar charts. On Expert Bass it scores D 7.84, Calc Tier 1, at or above 35% of the site’s Expert Bass charts. On Expert Keys it scores D 4.24, Calc Tier 0, at or above 9% of the site’s Expert Keys charts. On Expert Drums it scores D 15.94, Calc Tier 3, at or above 46% of the site’s Expert Drums charts. On Expert Vocals it scores D 12.29, Calc Tier 0, at or above 7% 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 Whip It by Devo: notes per second, fret changes per second and their sum over time

PartExpertHardMediumEasy
Lead Tier 18.478%6.515%5.0712%2.855%
Bass Tier 17.8435%6.3024%4.6928%2.7613%
Keys Tier 04.249%4.2412%4.0232%2.6931%
Drums Tier 315.9446%12.6332%9.2240%8.9779%
Vocals Tier 012.297%———

Ranked #71 of 82 songs in Rock Band 3 on Expert guitar, and #2075 of the 2,257 songs on the site with an Expert guitar chart. 475 notes over 2:39, 3.0 a second on average.

Nearby on Expert guitar: harder: Ricky by Wolves of Glendale (D 8.47, tier 1), Waiting for the Rapture by Oasis (D 8.48, tier 1); easier: Dis-Moi by BB Brunes (D 8.46, tier 1), Go with the Flow by Queens of the Stone Age (D 8.46, tier 1)

In Rock Band 3: harder: I Need to Know by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (D 8.58, tier 2), Walking on the Sun by Smash Mouth (D 8.60, tier 2); easier: I Love Rock N' Roll by Joan Jett & The Blackhearts (D 8.40, tier 1), Get Free by The Vines (D 8.33, tier 1)

More by Devo: Uncontrollable Urge by Devo (D 11.48, tier 3), Whip It by Devo (D 8.15, tier 1)

From Rock Band 3, 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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