C6 Pedal Steel: Chords for a Country Arrangement

The chord reference for this chair. Pick a root, then any of 62 qualities, and get the shapes plus the thing a chord chart never tells you: what this chair does with the chord once the arrangement is running.

The pedal steel chair carries the intro hook, a pedal-bend fill between lines, and a long pad holding the chorus up. The bar lies straight across 10 strings tuned to C6, and the chord is whatever those strings sound under it — until a foot or a knee retunes one of them, which is how the next chord of a song usually arrives without the bar moving at all.

Every position below is a straight bar or a short slant across the C6 neck's open strings, with no pedal or lever down, and each one plays back. What the pedals and levers do to those strings is drawn on this chair's key pages, where every chord change of a called change is a pedal move.