E9 Pedal Steel Plays B m7#5

B m7#5 spells B – D – G – A. A chord chart tells you that much and stops; an arrangement asks what happens to it once the song is actually playing, which is the question this page answers.

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 E9, 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 E9 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.