G# Major Pentatonic — C6 Pedal Steel
Every note of G# Major Pentatonic 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# Major Pentatonic is 5 notes to the octave (pentatonic family), drawn here across the C6 neck's ten strings with every G# marked, so home stays visible from anywhere in the pattern.
Open, sunny, and hard to play wrong — with no half steps there is nothing to clash, so every note sits comfortably over a major chord. Warm, folksy, and singable.
Heard in: Country, bluegrass, folk, gospel, Southern rock, and countless pop hooks — from "Amazing Grace" to "My Girl".
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.