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Highway Star by Deep Purple

A Rock Band chart, from the Rock Band 1 pack.

Harmonix / Rock Band / Official / Machine Head / 1972 / Classic Rock

On Expert Lead it scores D 35.41, Calc Tier 4, at or above 51% of the site’s Expert Guitar charts. On Expert Bass it scores D 35.63, Calc Tier 4, at or above 96% of the site’s Expert Bass charts. On Expert Drums it scores D 19.22, Calc Tier 4, at or above 78% of the site’s Expert Drums charts. On Expert Vocals it scores D 9.96, Calc Tier 3, at or above 68% of the site’s Expert Vocals charts.

Difficulty graph of Highway Star by Deep Purple: notes per second, fret changes per second and their geometric mean over time

PartExpertHardMediumEasy
Lead Tier 435.4151%19.9356%8.4944%4.4046%
Bass Tier 435.6396%20.9394%11.2693%4.7981%
Drums Tier 419.2278%17.4789%13.6791%12.9998%
Vocals Tier 39.9668%

Ranked #7 of 62 songs in Rock Band 1 on Expert guitar, and #1073 of the 2,257 songs on the site with an Expert guitar chart. 1,512 notes over 6:04, 4.2 a second on average.

Nearby on Expert guitar: harder: Superstition by Stevie Wonder (D 35.51, tier 4), She Builds Quick Machines by Velvet Revolver (D 35.51, tier 4); easier: Jessica by The Allman Brothers Band (WaveGroup) (D 35.32, tier 4), Love Removal Machine by The Cult (D 35.31, tier 4)

In Rock Band 1: harder: Outside by Tribe (D 36.83, tier 4), Enter Sandman by Metallica (D 37.56, tier 4); easier: Pleasure (Pleasure) by Bang Camaro (D 35.07, tier 4), Train Kept A-Rollin' (Vocal Version) by Aerosmith (WaveGroup) (D 34.68, tier 4)

More by Deep Purple: Burn by Deep Purple (D 72.20, tier 6), Space Truckin' by Deep Purple (D 26.09, tier 3), Woman From Tokyo ('99 Remix) by Deep Purple (D 23.45, tier 3), Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple (D 22.94, tier 3), Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple (D 18.67, tier 3)

From Rock Band 1, 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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