F Harmonic Minor — E9 Pedal Steel
Every note of F Harmonic Minor 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.
F Harmonic Minor is 7 notes to the octave (common family), drawn here across the E9 neck's ten strings with every F marked, so home stays visible from anywhere in the pattern.
Dark and dramatic. The raised 7th pulls hard toward the tonic, and the wide step from the b6 up to it gives the scale an exotic, almost Middle-Eastern tension.
Heard in: Classical minor-key harmony, neoclassical metal (Yngwie Malmsteen), flamenco-tinged rock, klezmer, and Balkan melodies.
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.