A Major — C6 Pedal Steel

A Major stacks A – C# – E. 7 bar positions on the C6 neck's ten strings sound exactly that set: fret 4, fret 9, a slant at frets 4–6, strings 7–5, a slant at frets 4–6, strings 3–1, a slant at frets 5–7, strings 6–4, a slant at frets 9–7, strings 10–8, a slant at frets 11–13, strings 9–7. Each chart shows where the bar lies and which strings the picks sound — tap one to hear it.

These charts are the C6 neck with every pedal up and every knee lever at rest — G-E-C-A-G-E-C-A-F-C from string 1 inward. The bar lies straight across all ten strings and the picks choose which of them speak; a string whose note is not in the chord stays silent.

That is only the starting point on a pedal steel. Each pedal and lever retunes a few strings while it is held, so the same bar position spells a different chord with a foot or a knee engaged. The copedent page for this neck works out every combination, and where any chord sits with them.

The copedent adds more: with Pedal 8 engaged the bar finds it at the nut, one of 10 bar positions that some combination of this neck's pedals and levers reaches.