G# Dorian — C6 Pedal Steel

Every note of G# Dorian as a bar position on the C6 neck's ten strings, pedals up — the root ringed each time it recurs, and a button that plays the run.

G# Dorian is 7 notes to the octave (modes family), drawn here across the C6 neck's ten strings with every G# marked, so home stays visible from anywhere in the pattern.

Minor with a raised 6th (natural 6) — soulful, smooth, and less dark than natural minor. The quintessential jazz-minor and blues mode.

Heard in: "So What" (Miles Davis), "Oye Como Va" (Santana), "Eleanor Rigby" (Beatles) — rock, blues, funk, jazz.

On a pedal steel a scale is mostly played with the bar moving, one or two notes at a time, and the pedals supply the notes a bar position lacks. These maps show the neck with the pedals up, so what they light is the ground every pedal move starts from.

Work it in one position before you work it up the neck. A bar that lands a hair short of the marker sounds flat on every string it covers, and the ear hears that long before the run is fast.