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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 16.13, Calc Tier 2, at or above 12% of the site’s Expert Guitar charts. On Expert Bass it scores D 11.09, Calc Tier 1, at or above 41% of the site’s Expert Bass charts. On Expert Keys it scores D 23.54, Calc Tier 3, at or above 76% 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 6.67, Calc Tier 2, at or above 30% of the site’s Expert Vocals charts.

Difficulty graph of I Need to Know by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: notes per second, fret changes per second and their geometric mean over time

PartExpertHardMediumEasy
Lead Tier 216.1312%9.7212%5.7619%2.1214%
Bass Tier 111.0941%6.5628%1.034%0.504%
Keys Tier 323.5476%11.5767%7.1284%2.4975%
Drums Tier 212.5510%10.8812%8.4527%5.6723%
Vocals Tier 26.6730%

Ranked #59 of 82 songs in Rock Band 3 on Expert guitar, and #1971 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: Get Free by The Vines (D 16.13, tier 2), My Worst Nightmare by Forever the Sickest Kids (D 16.15, tier 2); easier: Vagabond by Vildhjarta (D 16.12, tier 2), Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen (D 16.09, tier 2)

In Rock Band 3: harder: Get Free by The Vines (D 16.13, tier 2), Stop Me if You Think You've Heard This One Before by The Smiths (D 16.79, tier 2); easier: Just Like Heaven by The Cure (D 15.84, tier 2), Humanoid by Tokio Hotel (D 15.77, tier 2)

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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