C6 Pedal Steel Fills With G# Harmonic Minor

G# Harmonic Minor runs 7 notes to the octave. Below it is laid onto this chair's C6 neck with every G# marked, because what a fill needs mid-song is not the pattern — it is where the root is when the chord changes under it.

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.

A pedal steel fill is a line the bar and the pedals share: the bar comes to rest on a fret, and a pedal or lever raises a ringing string into the next note of the line, so a scale here marks the resting places and the notes a bend can reach from them.

Play it slowly against the audio until the shape stops being a shape, then take it to a song in G# and let the melody pick its own notes out of it.