E 7 — E9 Pedal Steel

E 7 stacks E – G# – B – D. 4 bar positions on the E9 neck's ten strings sound exactly that set: the open strings, a slant at frets 6–4, strings 6–4, a slant at frets 8–10, strings 6–4, a slant at frets 12–10, 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 the nut, one of 12 bar positions that some combination of this neck's pedals and levers reaches.