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You Really Got Me 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 16.16, Calc Tier 5, at or above 66% of the site’s Expert Guitar charts. On Expert Bass it scores D 7.86, Calc Tier 1, at or above 35% of the site’s Expert Bass charts. On Expert Drums it scores D 15.11, Calc Tier 3, at or above 35% of the site’s Expert Drums charts. On Expert Vocals it scores D 26.55, Calc Tier 4, at or above 76% of the site’s Expert Vocals charts. As a band it places at tier 4, the mean of its two hardest core parts.

Difficulty graph of You Really Got Me by Van Halen: notes per second, fret changes per second and their sum over time

PartExpertHardMediumEasy
Lead Tier 516.1666%11.3369%6.6744%2.694%
Bass Tier 17.8635%7.2044%5.4049%2.8114%
Drums Tier 315.1135%14.6764%9.4444%5.8930%
Vocals Tier 426.5576%———

Ranked #14 of 47 songs in Guitar Hero Van Halen on Expert guitar, and #736 of the 2,257 songs on the site with an Expert guitar chart. 532 notes over 2:35, 3.4 a second on average.

Nearby on Expert guitar: harder: Cliffs Of Dover by Eric Johnson (D 16.16, tier 5), Nine by UNDEAD CORPORATION (D 16.17, tier 5); easier: Sweetest Poison by Texas in July (D 16.15, tier 5), Suffocated by Orianthi (D 16.14, tier 5)

In Guitar Hero Van Halen: harder: Hear About It Later by Van Halen (D 16.17, tier 5), Romeo Delight by Van Halen (D 16.22, tier 5); easier: Somebody Get Me A Doctor by Van Halen (D 15.92, tier 5), Feel Your Love Tonight by Van Halen (D 14.95, tier 5)

More by Van Halen: Eruption by Van Halen (D 25.57, tier 8), 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)

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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