E Persian — E9 Pedal Steel
Every note of E Persian 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.
E Persian is 7 notes to the octave (world family), drawn here across the E9 neck's ten strings with every E marked, so home stays visible from anywhere in the pattern.
Intensely exotic — two half-step clusters (b2 against the root, b5 against the 4) and a raised 7th make it the most dramatic of the world scales. Mysterious, ornate, and tense.
Heard in: Persian and Middle-Eastern-flavored melodies, film scoring for desert and ancient settings, and exotic metal and progressive-rock riffs.
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.