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I Need to Know by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

A Rock Band 3 chart.

Harmonix / Rock Band 3 / Official / You're Gonna Get It! / 1978 / Classic Rock

On Expert Lead it scores D 8.58, Calc Tier 2, at or above 8% of the site’s Expert Guitar charts. On Expert Bass it scores D 7.72, Calc Tier 1, at or above 32% of the site’s Expert Bass charts. On Expert Keys it scores D 10.72, Calc Tier 3, at or above 75% of the site’s Expert Keys charts. On Expert Drums it scores D 12.55, Calc Tier 2, at or above 10% of the site’s Expert Drums charts. On Expert Vocals it scores D 16.70, Calc Tier 1, at or above 23% 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 I Need to Know by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: notes per second, fret changes per second and their sum over time

PartExpertHardMediumEasy
Lead Tier 28.588%6.656%5.1213%3.2011%
Bass Tier 17.7232%5.8817%3.535%2.224%
Keys Tier 310.7275%7.3959%5.7375%3.4368%
Drums Tier 212.5510%10.8812%8.4527%5.6724%
Vocals Tier 116.7023%———

Ranked #70 of 82 songs in Rock Band 3 on Expert guitar, and #2060 of the 2,257 songs on the site with an Expert guitar chart. 406 notes over 2:25, 2.8 a second on average.

Nearby on Expert guitar: harder: Pretty Fly (For a White Guy) by The Offspring (D 8.59, tier 2), Walking on the Sun by Smash Mouth (D 8.60, tier 2); easier: Lump by The Presidents of the United States of America (D 8.58, tier 2), You Oughta Know by Alanis Morissette (D 8.58, tier 2)

In Rock Band 3: harder: Walking on the Sun by Smash Mouth (D 8.60, tier 2), Killing Loneliness by HIM (D 8.77, tier 2); easier: Whip It by Devo (D 8.47, tier 1), I Love Rock N' Roll by Joan Jett & The Blackhearts (D 8.40, tier 1)

From Rock Band 3, 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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