• Song:

    Franklins Tower

  • Artist:

    Grateful Dead

Transcribed by Matt Gagliano
mgags7@gmail.com

The chords for this song are already up here and right so I wont tab them out, it's A to 
with a G in between on beat 4. Here's the tab for the intro solo.

It's played in A major, so you get a major mood over the A chord and lydian over the D 
For example Jerry uses the flat 4 of D lydian (a G note) on the first beat of measure 2 
a D major chord to make a Dsus4, which sounds really cool.

Anyways, he follows the changes pretty closely on this one, landing on the E note (A's 
to start the measures over the A chord almost every time.

  A               D                      A                D
E-16b17-17rb16-14|15-14-----------------|----------------|----------------|
B----------------|-----15---17b19-19rb17|17-----14-----14|----------------|
G----------------|-------14-------------|------------14--|16-------14-----|
D----------------|----------------------|----------14----|--17-------16---|
A----------------|----------------------|----------------|----(17)-----17-|
E----------------|----------------------|----------------|----------------|

                 A                     D
E---------------|---------------------|-------------------------------------|
B---------------|---------------------|-------------------------------------|
G---------------|---------------------|-------------------------------------|
D-16-16-17-16-17|14----14-16-15-14----|----------------16-14----------------|
A---------------|---/16------------/16|\14-12-14-12-/16-----16-14-14--------|
E---------------|---------------------|-----------------------------17-14-12|

  A                 D
E------------------|------------------------------|
B------------------|------------------------------|
G------------------|14------------14-16-14-16sl18-|
D-/16-14---14-16-17|--16--------16----------------|
A------------------|----17-16h17------------------|
E------------------|------------------------------|

I'll probably get around to the rest of the leads this week...look for more

-Matt
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