Somewhere in Finland around the year 2000, a very pale man in immaculate eyeliner decided that heartbreak deserved its own logo. That man was Ville Valo, that logo was the heartagram, and "Gone With The Sin" is essentially HIM's entire love-metal thesis compressed into one gorgeously mopey ballad — the kind of song you slow-dance to alone, in the dark, on purpose.
This 44-second clip is my MelodyChords fingerstyle arrangement of it: melody and chords braided together on a single guitar, no band, no fog machine required (though both help the mood). If you've been hunting for a "HIM Gone With The Sin guitar tab" that actually sounds like the song when you play it unaccompanied, this one's built for you.
How this chord-melody fingerstyle arrangement works
The whole trick with a MelodyChords (a.k.a. chord-melody) arrangement is that your thumb and fingers have to do an entire band's job at once. The top string carries Ville's vocal line, the inner voices spell out that brooding minor harmony, and the bass note anchors everything so the whole thing doesn't just float off into gothic space. The one rule that makes or breaks it: play the melody note slightly louder than everything underneath — dig in with a touch more nail — so the tune sings out over the chords instead of drowning in them.
The concrete takeaway: learn the top-line melody completely on its own first, humming along, before you add a single chord tone beneath it. Then good voice leading — keeping the inner notes moving as little as possible from chord to chord — is exactly what makes this arrangement feel smoothly sad instead of clunkily sad. Same fingerstyle logic powers moody pieces like Silent Hill's "Promise", if you want more darkness after this.
Is it easier than convincing 2003-me to wash off the eyeliner? Marginally. If you want the full PDF tab and the Guitar Pro file so you can brood in high definition, they're waiting on my Patreon.