E9 Pedal Steel Fills With A# Rock 'n' Roll

A# Rock 'n' Roll runs 6 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.

Major pentatonic with a b3 rubbed against the natural 3 — bright and bouncy with a bluesy smirk. Playful, swinging, and built for boogie riffs.

Heard in: Fifties rock, rockabilly, boogie-woogie, Chuck Berry-style riffs, and jump blues.

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.