American Pie by Don McLean
A Band Hero chart.
Neversoft / Band Hero / Official / American Pie / 1971 / Classic Rock
On Expert Lead it scores D 10.84, Calc Tier 3, at or above 27% of the site’s Expert Guitar charts. On Expert Bass it scores D 8.91, Calc Tier 2, at or above 55% of the site’s Expert Bass charts. On Expert Drums it scores D 16.47, Calc Tier 3, at or above 53% of the site’s Expert Drums charts. On Expert Vocals it scores D 48.14, Calc Tier 7, at or above 99% of the site’s Expert Vocals charts. As a band it places at tier 3, the mean of its two hardest core parts.
| Part | Expert | Hard | Medium | Easy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lead Tier 3 | 10.8427% | 9.3244% | 7.6266% | 6.4185% |
| Bass Tier 2 | 8.9155% | 7.0741% | 6.1868% | 5.5989% |
| Drums Tier 3 | 16.4753% | 15.0469% | 10.1453% | 9.7685% |
| Vocals Tier 7 | 48.1499% | — | — | — |
Ranked #17 of 65 songs in Band Hero on Expert guitar, and #1629 of the 2,257 songs on the site with an Expert guitar chart. 1,427 notes over 8:31, 2.8 a second on average.
Nearby on Expert guitar: harder: A Passage to Bangkok by Rush (D 10.86, tier 3), All the Young Dudes by Mott the Hoople (WaveGroup) (D 10.87, tier 3); easier: Look Good in Leather by Cody ChesnuTT (D 10.84, tier 3), Heart Full of Black by Burning Brides (WaveGroup) (D 10.83, tier 3)
In Band Hero: harder: In a Big Country by Big Country (D 10.89, tier 3), Love is a Battlefield by Pat Benatar (D 10.90, tier 3); easier: Turn Off the Light by Nelly Furtado (D 10.81, tier 3), Bad Reputation by Joan Jett (D 10.79, tier 3)
From Band Hero, 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.