E9 Pedal Steel Fills With A# Natural Minor

A# Natural Minor runs 7 notes to the octave. Below it is laid onto this chair's E9 neck with every A# marked, because what a fill needs mid-song is not the pattern — it is where the root is when the chord changes under it.

The standard natural minor scale — melancholic, introspective, and deeply emotive. The most common minor sound in Western music.

Heard in: Pop, rock, classical, metal — the default minor sound of Western music.

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 A# and let the melody pick its own notes out of it.