Ancient Rites
'Aris'

From the album 'Fatherland'
(Mascot Records)

The song was tabbed in D, but I think AR tunes to E or Eb

Tabbed by: Vortigern
Contact: guy@freemail.hammerfall.net

*: palm mute
h: hammer on
~: vibrato
b: bend
/: slide

Repeats and timing are up to you.

Riff 1
|------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------|
|------5-4----------------5-4--------|
|-2----3-2-0232-0232-2----3-2-0232-5-|
|-0-00---------------0-00----------3-|
    **     **** ****   **     ****

Riff 2
|---------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------|
|-----------------8-7-----------------8-|
|-320-2-320-2-320-6-5-320-2-320-2-320-6-|
|---------------------------------------|
  *** * *** * ***     *** * *** * ***

Riff 3
|---------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------|
|-------7-8-------5-4-------7-8----5-4--|
|-------5-6-------3-2-------5-6----3-2--|
|-0-000-----0-000-----0-000-----00------|
  * ***     * ***     * ***     **
The other guitar plays a loop here, but that was too difficult
for me.

Riff 4, tremolo picked
|--------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------54----------------------------------|
|-2-454-2-42-0-2-454----54-2-454-2-420-2-454-------------|
|--------------------------------------------2-454-0-232-|

Riff 5
|-------------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------------|
|-9------9------9------9------5------5------7------7----|
|-7-7777-7-7777-7-7777-7-7777-3-3333-3-3333-5-5555-5b---|
|-------------------------------------------------------|
    ****   ****   ****   ****   ****   ****   ****

Riff 6, tremolo picked
|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|
|-2-4545-7-5-4-5-4--------------|
|------------------5~-----------|
|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|
Sorry, only first bit. The rest is too hard. ?

Riff 7
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|---------------------5-55-7-----|
|-5/4-2-----5/4-2-----3-33-5-----|
|-3/2-0-000-3/2-0-000--------3-2-|
        ***       ***

Riff 8
|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|
|-------------------7-7-7-9-----|
|-7/6-4-----7/6-----5-5-5-7-----|
|-5/4-2-222-5/4-222---------5-4-|
|-------------------------------|
        ***     ***

Riff 9, tremolo picked
|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|
|---545---540---545---575-------|
|-2-----2-----2-----2-----------|
|-------------------------------|

Riff 10, tremolo picked

|--------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------|
|-7-h9-7-h10-7-h9-5-7-h9-7-h10-7-10/12-|
|--------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------|
Final slide isn't correct, I think.

Riff 11
|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|
|-2-5-4-3-----------------------|
|-0-3-2-1-----------------------|
Later on the same with palm muting. Guitar plays same but one
octave higher (?) with single notes and lots of overdrive.

Riff 12
|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|
|-4-7-6-2-5-7--4-3-2-3-5--------|
|-2-5-4-0-3-5--2-1-0-1-3--------|
Some solo-stuff goes with this.

Riff 13, end
|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|
|-4-let ring--------------------|
|-2-----------------------------|

Have fun!

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