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Heart-Shaped Box by Nirvana (WaveGroup)

A Guitar Hero II chart.

Harmonix / Guitar Hero II / Official / In Utero / 1993 / Grunge

On Expert Lead it scores D 9.39, Calc Tier 2, at or above 14% of the site’s Expert Guitar charts. On Expert Bass it scores D 8.09, Calc Tier 1, at or above 39% of the site’s Expert Bass charts. As a band it places at tier 1, the mean of its two hardest core parts.

Difficulty graph of Heart-Shaped Box by Nirvana (WaveGroup): notes per second, fret changes per second and their sum over time

PartExpertHardMediumEasy
Lead Tier 29.3914%8.5331%6.7747%5.2059%
Bass Tier 18.0939%7.7658%5.9262%4.3760%

Ranked #85 of 91 songs in Guitar Hero II on Expert guitar, and #1940 of the 2,257 songs on the site with an Expert guitar chart. 850 notes over 5:01, 2.8 a second on average.

Nearby on Expert guitar: harder: Jamie's Cryin' by Van Halen (D 9.40, tier 2), Let's Dance by David Bowie (D 9.42, tier 2); easier: Still Into You by Paramore (D 9.39, tier 2), Up Around the Bend by Creedence Clearwater Revival (D 9.38, tier 2)

In Guitar Hero II: harder: Radium Eyes by Count Zero (D 9.51, tier 2), Laughtrack (Co-op) by The Acro-brats (D 9.67, tier 2); easier: Mr. Fix It by The Amazing Crowns (D 9.33, tier 2), Can't You Hear Me Knockin' (Co-op) by The Rolling Stones (WaveGroup) (D 8.87, tier 2)

From Guitar Hero II, 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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