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Ronnie James Dio

I learned my lesson with Ultimate-Guitar.. if it’s a famous enough song, submitting even the most unique tab of it won’t get you anywhere.. you’ll get the same generic negative comments “too many tabs already, we don’t need another one” blah blah..

But here, I’ve transposed Holy Diver..

The guitars are tuned down a half step, no matter what half the tabs out there SAY.. I believe this because it’s written in (essentially) C minor.. and that key is much more easily navigated in Eb tuning.. Using the positions of C# (tonic chord = x46654 = C#m in standard, Cm in Eb)

Anyway, so it’s in C minor.. I put the capo at 3, and started with the Am chord position (x02210).. the intro riff can be seen as (relative to the capo) Am - G/B - C, Am - C - G, Am - C - G, Am G F..  and the whole song is, as one could expect.. fairly modal / without much weight on tonality (minus a couple Dominant chords bearing the leading tone, tossed around carelessly at the cadences..) I ramble..

If you know any music theory + guitar chords.. you can probably see where I’m going with this, and dick around with it yourself.. I hope someone musical finds this at some point xD  ~\m/~