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1979 by The Smashing Pumpkins

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

Neversoft / Guitar Hero: World Tour DLC / Official / Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness / 1995 / Alternative Rock

On Expert Lead it scores D 10.93, Calc Tier 3, at or above 28% of the site’s Expert Guitar charts. On Expert Bass it scores D 5.84, Calc Tier 0, at or above 7% of the site’s Expert Bass charts. On Expert Drums it scores D 11.57, Calc Tier 1, at or above 6% of the site’s Expert Drums charts. On Expert Vocals it scores D 15.66, Calc Tier 1, at or above 18% 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 1979 by The Smashing Pumpkins: notes per second, fret changes per second and their sum over time

PartExpertHardMediumEasy
Lead Tier 310.9328%9.3945%5.8226%4.7344%
Bass Tier 05.847%5.8417%3.233%3.2425%
Drums Tier 111.576%10.5310%7.4214%5.1114%
Vocals Tier 115.6618%———

Ranked #68 of 147 songs in Guitar Hero World Tour DLC on Expert guitar, and #1606 of the 2,257 songs on the site with an Expert guitar chart. 1,109 notes over 4:12, 4.4 a second on average.

Nearby on Expert guitar: harder: Sacrifice by The Weeknd (D 10.97, tier 3), Sacrifice by The Weeknd (D 10.97, tier 3); easier: Everything Burns (feat. Beartooth) by Tom Morello (D 10.93, tier 3), Storytime (Nightwish cover) by Minniva (D 10.93, tier 3)

In Guitar Hero World Tour DLC: harder: Mr. Brightside by The Killers (D 11.02, tier 3), Wonderwall by Ryan Adams (D 11.12, tier 3); easier: Well Thought Out Twinkles by Silversun Pickups (D 10.93, tier 3), Fly One Time by Ben Harper and Relentless7 (D 10.92, tier 3)

More by The Smashing Pumpkins: Zero by The Smashing Pumpkins (D 15.19, tier 5), Tarantula by The Smashing Pumpkins (D 14.90, tier 5), Cherub Rock by The Smashing Pumpkins (D 14.18, tier 4), Soma by The Smashing Pumpkins (D 13.37, tier 4), Cherub Rock by The Smashing Pumpkins (D 12.61, tier 4)

From Guitar Hero World Tour DLC, 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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