Franklin's Tower - Grateful Dead

Couple of fans are trying to learn Franklin's.

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• Franklin's
• Tower
• grateful
• dead
• guitar
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• jerry
• garcia
• bob
• weir
• darks
• tab

[caseyjones67]

i wanna see u naked

[frigginurge]

Let's roll a fatty and have a laugh. Peace.

[extremeeXrement1]

if you wanna jam to it its F# heptatonic

[BADequalsGOOD]

awesome bar

[verbenco]

as i looked further down the page i see i made similar comments a couple of months ago, i am sorry for my redundancy.

[verbenco]

for fire -- when the chords are A and B the key is usually E because A is the 4 chord and B is the 5 so the blues (or rock ) progression would be E- A - B so E or C#minor is the key. ( 4 sharps)

Franklin's tower can be looked at a number of ways, if one relates to the A chord as the tonic and D as the subdominent one could jam in A or F# minor bit i suppose some believe it to be in D so a standard minor pentatonic jam would be B minor.

who knows how jerry related to this stuff.? not me

[verbenco]

I always thought the chord changes were A to D putting the song firmly in A or F#minor. But I heard of those who inject a G chord. if this is so the song belongs in D.

I have always treated the song as if it were in A, but since F#minor and B minor are pretty close why not change with the chord..

[verbenco]

i forget the chords to fire on the mountain but it in fact they are A and B the jam would be in E because A is the subdominent of E and B is the dominent. think about a 12 bar blues progrression which would be E - A and B. actually the jam could be a C# minor pentatonic which is the relative minor of E. (same key signiture)

but i think jerry sometimes changed scales with each chord change.

[Alfrunk]

How so?

[freebird12345]

its not in A its in D .. your supposed to jam in D .. also in fire on the mountain the chords are B and A but for some reason you jam in the key of E

[RikFilms]

Did you start playing Johnny B. Goode at the end?

Lol.

[Mookmaster01]

what a rich yuppie