One of the few things Rock Band gets wrong is the complete lack of information on per-instrument difficulty levels. A song’s difficulty tier is a composite of the individual Drum, Vocal, Guitar, and Bass instrument difficulties — but there’s no way to see what those are! It’s all too common to get surprised by a song that’s easy for 2 or 3 band members and incredibly difficult for the other band members.

Fortunately, some kind souls on the ScoreHero Rock Band Forums put together a difficulty list for of all the songs, including all the downloadable content songs:

For my own convenience, I reformatted the standard 58 songs in the default Rock Band song list into this simple table.

Order Tier Song Max Score Gtr Bas Drm Voc Avg 1 1 Say it Ain’t So 1,228,868 3 3 1 1 2 2 1 In Bloom 2,273,959 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 I Think I’m Paranoid 1,151,992 2 2 1 2 1.75 4 1 Mississippi Queen 788,975 1 1 2 8 3 5 1 Here It Goes Again 1,395,564 1 1 2 3 1.75 6 2 29 Fingers 940,890 3 5 1 4 3.25 7 2 Creep 1,550,714 4 4 1 2 2.75 8 2 Wave of Mutilation 777,379 2 2 2 5 2.75 9 2 Should I Stay or Should I Go 1,383,039 1 1 4 4 2.5 10 2 Maps 1,153,969 1 1 3 1 1.5 11 2 Seven 2,004,533 2 4 2 8 4 12 2 Gimme Shelter 1,767,345 4 4 2 8 4.5 13 3 Sabotage 1,280,021 3 3 5 4 3.75 14 3 Blitzkrieg Bop 1,130,582 3 3 5 4 3.75 15 3 Celebrity Skin 1,349,772 4 4 2 4 3.5 16 3 I’m So Sick 1,010,165 3 3 3 9 4.5 17 3 Time We Had 1,453,604 1 2 4 3 2.5 18 3 When You Were Young 1,353,389 4 4 6 6 5 19 3 Black Hole Sun 1,417,261 5 5 4 3 4.25 20 4 Blood Doll 1,074,466 4 2 2 7 3.75 21 4 Wanted Dead or Alive 1,509,069 6 6 1 5 4.5 22 4 Day Late, Dollar Short 1,814,165 2 4 4 9 4.75 23 4 Learn to Fly 1,540,846 3 3 4 2 3 24 4 Nightmare 1,196,277 4 5 3 4 4 25 4 Orange Crush 1,154,851 2 2 5 3 3 26 4 Main Offender 1,026,162 5 5 3 5 4.5 27 4 The Hand That Feeds 1,394,731 2 2 4 4 3 28 5 Epic 2,056,843 5 5 3 3 4 29 5 Suffragette City 1,585,488 5 5 3 9 5.5 30 5 Ballroom Blitz 2,580,884 7 7 7 5 6.5 31 5 Dead on Arrival 1,518,559 7 7 7 6 6.75 32 5 Train Kept a Rollin’ 1,437,449 9 8 7 8 8 33 6 Are You Gonna Be My Girl 2,046,816 6 6 5 7 6 34 6 Pleasure (Pleasure) 1,341,127 9 3 2 2 4 35 6 Paranoid 1,308,442 6 6 5 1 4.5 36 6 Brainpower 884,265 7 7 5 5 6 37 6 Welcome Home 2,631,217 8 8 6 8 7.5 38 6 Can’t Let Go 1,178,551 8 4 5 9 6.5 39 6 Go With the Flow 1,248,177 3 3 7 2 3.75 40 6 Dani California 2,381,086 6 6 5 3 5 41 7 (Don’t Fear) The Reaper 1,914,422 6 6 8 2 5.5 42 7 I Get By 1,761,582 5 1 6 9 5.25 43 7 Outside 1,744,686 5 1 8 6 5 44 7 Reptilia 1,564,762 5 5 3 6 4.75 45 7 Electric Version 1,424,427 4 4 6 7 5.25 46 7 Vasoline 1,134,860 7 7 6 4 6 47 7 Detroit Rock City 1,056,072 3 3 7 6 4.75 48 7 Timmy & the Lords of the Underworld 1,028,823 9 4 7 9 7.25 49 8 Next To You 1,209,073 7 7 9 7 7.5 50 8 Cherub Rock 2,481,737 8 8 8 5 7.25 51 8 Tom Sawyer 1,493,375 8 8 9 9 8.5 52 8 Enter Sandman 1,752,291 8 9 8 6 7.75 53 8 Green Grass and High Tides 3,438,214 9 9 6 7 7.75 54 9 Highway Star 2,570,115 9 9 8 9 8.75 55 9 Foreplay/Long Time 2,228,909 8 8 8 9 8.25 56 9 Flirtin’ With Disaster 2,437,515 9 9 9 7 8.5 57 9 Won’t Get Fooled Again 2,355,217 7 7 9 8 7.75 58 9 Run to the Hills 1,504,336 9 9 9 9 9

Tracks in grey are bonus tracks; scores marked in red are the top 10 scoring songs in the game. Print this out and keep it in your practice space — don’t get surprised by a song difficulty again!