C Major — C6 Pedal Steel

C Major stacks C – E – G. 7 bar positions on the C6 neck's ten strings sound exactly that set: the open strings, fret 7, a slant at frets 2–4, strings 9–7, a slant at frets 7–9, strings 7–5, a slant at frets 7–9, strings 3–1, a slant at frets 8–10, strings 6–4, a slant at frets 12–10, strings 10–8. 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 4 engaged the bar finds it at the nut, one of 10 bar positions that some combination of this neck's pedals and levers reaches.