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Atomic Punk 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 13.08, Calc Tier 4, at or above 47% of the site’s Expert Guitar charts. On Expert Bass it scores D 9.66, Calc Tier 2, at or above 67% of the site’s Expert Bass charts. On Expert Drums it scores D 16.67, Calc Tier 4, at or above 55% of the site’s Expert Drums charts. On Expert Vocals it scores D 14.88, Calc Tier 1, at or above 15% 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 Atomic Punk by Van Halen: notes per second, fret changes per second and their sum over time

PartExpertHardMediumEasy
Lead Tier 413.0847%10.2958%6.4640%4.1327%
Bass Tier 29.6667%8.7176%5.9763%4.2154%
Drums Tier 416.6755%14.8667%10.4358%7.1954%
Vocals Tier 114.8815%———

Ranked #27 of 47 songs in Guitar Hero Van Halen on Expert guitar, and #1164 of the 2,257 songs on the site with an Expert guitar chart. 751 notes over 2:58, 4.2 a second on average.

Nearby on Expert guitar: harder: Iron Fist by Motorhead (D 13.09, tier 4), Decontrol by Drist (D 13.09, tier 4); easier: Field Sobriety Practice by The Callous Daoboys (D 13.08, tier 4), Solitude by Candlemass (D 13.08, tier 4)

In Guitar Hero Van Halen: harder: Cathedral by Van Halen (D 13.17, tier 4), Unchained by Van Halen (D 13.28, tier 4); easier: So This Is Love? by Van Halen (D 13.06, tier 4), The End of Heartache by Killswitch Engage (D 12.95, tier 4)

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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