D# Major — E9 Pedal Steel

D# Major stacks D# – F## – A#. 6 bar positions on the E9 neck's ten strings sound exactly that set: fret 1, fret 4, fret 11, a slant at frets 4–2, strings 5–3, a slant at frets 4–6, strings 10–8, a slant at frets 11–13, strings 3–1. Each chart shows where the bar lies and which strings the picks sound — tap one to hear it.

These charts are the E9 neck with every pedal up and every knee lever at rest — F#-D#-G#-E-B-G#-F#-E-D-B from string 1 inward — B-D-E-F#-G#-B-D#-E-F#-G# in pitch order, because string 3 sits above strings 1 and 2. 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 A pedal engaged the bar finds it at fret 1, one of 12 bar positions that some combination of this neck's pedals and levers reaches.