Within Temptation – Raise Your Banner (Guitar)

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Tune down 1/2 step and transpose +1 to play in E minor, or capo 1 and transpose -1 to play in D minor. In reality they're using 7-string guitars tuned down, probably to drop Ab - Ab Eb Ab Db Gb Bb eb The first part of the intro is based on Phrygian Dominant - Root, flat second, major third, fourth, fifth, minor 6th, minor 7th, hence the major chord at the beginning.
[Intro]
  (vocal line + synth arranged for guitar)
e|----------6------|(6)------9---7---|-----------------|-6-------7-------|
B|-----------------|-----------------|-8-----------9---|-----------------|
G|-8---------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
D|-8---------------|----------9--6---|-8---------------|-8---------------|
A|-6---------------|----------7--4---|-6---------------|-6---------------|
E|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
            *                 *
* the timing of these notes is such that they are displaced off the beat
[Intro] (synth and vocals)
| D#        | D#    E  C#m | D#        | D#        |
(guitar in)

| D#        | D#    E  C#m | D#        | D#        |
                                         Blood for freedom
| D#m | G#m | B | C# | x2 | D#m | D#m | F# | C# | [Verse 1]
D#m
    You're pushing me into the corner

                    F#                     C#
Don't fight with me,   don't fight with me,   don't fight with me

D#m
    I'm crowning no man for his armour or rhapsody

F#                C#
   For what I see,   and what I feel
[Pre-Chorus]
D#m
Wake up

               F#                          C#
I'm defying you, seeing right through you, once I believed in you

D#m
Wake up

                  F#                   C#
Feel what's coming, deep within we all know
N.C. Blood for freedom [Chorus]
D#m                G#m                B
    So raise your banner, fight your war

           C#             D#m
Break the silence, no remorse

      G#m     B   C#
Won't die withi - in

(C#)
Blood for freedom

D#m             G#m               B
    Raise your banner, won't you come

           C#                 D#m
Fight the venom, the good die young

      G#m     B   C#
Won't die withi - in
[Interlude] | D#m | D#m | D#m | D#m | [Verse 2]
D#m                             G#m
    I'm feeling the eyes of the fallen, they're watching me

B                  C#
  They make me see,   they make me see

D#m                              G#m
    I'm feeling the pain how you break them and make them bleed

B                     C#
  You make them bleed,   you make them bleed
[Pre-Chorus]
D#m
Wake up

G#m                B                           C#
   I'm defying you,  seeing right through you, once I believed in you

D#m
Wake up

G#m                    B                    C#
    Feel what's coming,  deep within we all know
N.C. The way that you torment me The way that you challenge me The way that you make me bleed
          D#m
Blood for freedom
[Chorus]
D#m                G#m                B
    So raise your banner, fight your war

           C#             D#m
Break the silence, no remorse

      G#m     B   C#
Won't die withi - in

(C#)
Blood for freedom

D#m             G#m               B
    Raise your banner, won't you come

           C#                 D#m
Fight the venom, the good die young

      G#m     B   C#
Won't die withi - in
[Instrumental] | D# | D# E C#m | D# | D# F# E | x2
(arrangement of 7-string guitar for 6-string)
   D#                                     E     C#m    D#                                     F#    E
e|-------------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------|
B|-------------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------|
G|-8---8-------8---8-------|-8---8-------------------|-8---8-------8---8-------|-8---8-------------------|
D|-8---8-------8---8-------|-8---8-------------------|-8---8-------8---8-------|-8---8-------------------|
A|-6---6-6-6-6-6---6-6-6-6-|-6---6-6-6-6-4s7-7-7s4-4-|-6---6-6-6-6-6---6-6-6-6-|-6---6-6-6-6-------------|
E|-------------------------|-------------4s7-7-7s4-4-|-------------------------|-------------0h2-2-2p0-0-|
         P.M.-|      P.M.-|        P.M.-|                    P.M.-|      P.M.-|        P.M.-|
[Solo] | B | B | D#m | D#m | | B | B C# | D#m | D#m C# | | G#m | G#m | A# | A# | [Interlude] | D#m | C# | B | C# | x2
  D#m
  Blood for freedom
[Chorus]
D#m                G#m                B
    So raise your banner, fight your war

           C#             D#m
Break the silence, no remorse

      G#m     B   C#
Won't die withi - in

(C#)
Blood for freedom

D#m             G#m               B
    Raise your banner, won't you come

           C#                 D#m
Fight the venom, the good die young

      G#m     B   C#
Won't die withi - in
[Outro]
D#m               C#
    When gods are failing

B              C#          D#m
  They put all heaven in a rage

      C#     B    C#
We're on our ow - own

D#m                C#
    Our tears keep falling

B                 C#          D#m
  They're setting fire to the flame

C#        B        C#          D#m
Blood for freeee - eeee - ee - dom
D#m ****************************** | P.M. Palm mute | s Slide (legato) | h Hammer-on | p Pull-off ******************************