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“MR. CROWLEY”

Ozzy Osbourne

THIS CLASSIC, HAUNTINGLY beautiful composition features some of the late, great Randy Rhoads’ finest musical moments in his brief but brilliant career collaborating with the legendary Ozzy Osbourne. Written in the key of D minor, the song is built around a suite of inventive, sophisticated classical-style chord progressions or that D combine natural minor the modal (D, E colors , F, G, A of , B D b , Aeolian C), D har , - monic minor (D, E, F, G, A, B b , C # ) and, in the intro, a little bit of D Dorian (D, E, F, G, A, B, C), via the Em7 chord.

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