D# Blues — E9 Pedal Steel
Every note of D# Blues as a bar position on the E9 neck's ten strings, pedals up — the root ringed each time it recurs, and a button that plays the run.
D# Blues is 6 notes to the octave (blues family), drawn here across the E9 neck's ten strings with every D# marked, so home stays visible from anywhere in the pattern.
The minor pentatonic with a b5 "blue note" wedged in — that one extra note adds grit, tension, and a sly, vocal quality. Tough, expressive, and unmistakably bluesy.
Heard in: Blues, rock, jazz, rhythm and blues, and boogie-woogie — Delta and Chicago blues, Hendrix, Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan.
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.