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The Trooper by Iron Maiden (WaveGroup)

A Guitar Hero II chart.

Harmonix / Guitar Hero II / Official / Piece of Mind / 1983 / Heavy Metal

On Expert Lead it scores D 17.90, Calc Tier 6, at or above 74% of the site’s Expert Guitar charts. On Expert Bass it scores D 12.60, Calc Tier 4, at or above 91% of the site’s Expert Bass charts. As a band it places at tier 5, the mean of its two hardest core parts.

Difficulty graph of The Trooper by Iron Maiden (WaveGroup): notes per second, fret changes per second and their sum over time

PartExpertHardMediumEasy
Lead Tier 617.9074%12.8481%7.9671%5.9478%
Bass Tier 412.6091%12.3598%9.0398%5.5188%

Ranked #9 of 91 songs in Guitar Hero II on Expert guitar, and #536 of the 2,257 songs on the site with an Expert guitar chart. 1,364 notes over 4:11, 5.4 a second on average.

Nearby on Expert guitar: harder: Serenity Painted Death by Opeth (D 17.91, tier 6), Pokémon Stadium 2 Minigame Medley by Hajime Wakai (D 17.93, tier 6); easier: Malevolence by A Plea for Purging (D 17.87, tier 6), Megalo Strike Back by Toby Fox (D 17.86, tier 6)

In Guitar Hero II: harder: Institutionalized by Suicidal Tendencies (WaveGroup) (D 17.97, tier 6), Institutionalized (Co-op) by Suicidal Tendencies (WaveGroup) (D 17.99, tier 6); easier: Misirlou by Dick Dale (WaveGroup) (D 17.66, tier 6), Less Talk More Rokk by FreezePop (D 17.00, tier 5)

More by Iron Maiden (WaveGroup): Run to the Hills by Iron Maiden (WaveGroup) (D 13.88, tier 4), Wrathchild by Iron Maiden (WaveGroup) (D 12.52, tier 4)

From Guitar Hero II, 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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