E9 Pedal Steel Fills With C# Major Pentatonic

C# Major Pentatonic runs 5 notes to the octave. Below it is laid onto this chair's E9 neck with every C# marked, because what a fill needs mid-song is not the pattern — it is where the root is when the chord changes under it.

Open, sunny, and hard to play wrong — with no half steps there is nothing to clash, so every note sits comfortably over a major chord. Warm, folksy, and singable.

Heard in: Country, bluegrass, folk, gospel, Southern rock, and countless pop hooks — from "Amazing Grace" to "My Girl".

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