This message was edited by Buck Dilly on 17 April 2003 at 12:57 PM.Just general rule of thumb positions to hit, especially if Im in a bind.LKL raises the Es, RKL lowers the Es, RKR lowers the second string D to D.
I think Ill have to wait unil Im on PC as it doesnt appear to work with Mac. Then, whenever you are at a major chord, no pedals, such as F - first fret, the relative minor is the same fret with the A Pedal down. If you are playing a major chord with the AB pedals down, the relative minor is two frets lower with the Es lowered. Example: F Major at fret 8, AB down, then Dm is at fret 6 with the Es lowered. Its easily found by being at the No Pedals position for the one chord and pressing BC pedals. Based on this assumption, I would offer the following suggestions: You would have any given frets minor chord (instead of that frets major chord) as you probably already know. Pedal Steel Chords & Scales How To Use ThemNow how to use them Ok, Two frets up from any fret you have the relative minor chord to the 4 chord. IE, at fret 10 you would have Dmin which is relative to the F chord, which is the 4 chord in the key of C. Now if you want the relative minor to the I (C) chord, you would find this at fret 5. To summarize: 1. Three frets down from the I chord is the I chord relative minor. Two frets up from the I chord is the 4 chord relative minor. I chord is the 5 chord relative minor. If you did not already know it, there are 3 relative minor chords to any major Key. IE, key of C you have: 1. C Amin 2. F Dmin 3. G Emin The great thing about this minor chord inversion is it completes the final inversion of any major or minor chord on any 3 consecutive strings (3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 10). ![]() But we never had the 3rd inversion,UNLESS one used the B and C pedals. With the subject minor inversion, we now can obtain any major or any minor inversion using just the A andor B pedals and various combinations of the E and F knee levers if needs be. I would not want to play a PSG without lowering at least the 6th string to a G (I do it by splitting). In the future I will be lowering string 3 to a G as well, which will then totally complete what I feel music calls for with respect to major and minor chords. Hope this helps, and may Jesus bless you in your quests, carl This message was edited by C Dixon on 17 April 2003 at 10:29 AM. So from any open chord (E9th) I drop Gs to G on Pedal 0 (to the left of the A pedal) to get the minor of that chord, and from the AB position, I add LKV (Bs to Bbs, split tuned) to get the minor of that chord. I dont like the sound of the BC minor inversion (maybe its just the timbre of strings 4 and 5 being raised a whole tone, I dont know) so I dont use it much for minors (plenty of other cool E9th stuff to be had with BC). I do like the sound of the A pedal minor chord position (same type of thing as above, AF on the 3rd fret is E, release the F lever for E minor, or release the A pedal for E7th). FWIW. were basically playing a Chord Inversion Machine (maybe apparatus would be a better term.
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