10 Ways to go from a Major to a Minor Chord | Pedal Steel Guitar Lesson
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Hello and welcome to Steel Picking! In this video, we will continue our study of the fret board. We will be going from a major to a minor chord. I use C to C minor for this example.
I hope that this video helps and can help you all to become better pickers!
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Thanks for helping me on my journey.
I agree you’re the best teacher I’ve found on here and you go at a good pace. This was my pandemic project to honor my late brother and cousin, both gone and steel pickers in Ireland. I don’t know how they learned without the internet but they achieved a great level of skill.
I appreciate that! My son and I are glad to share and I appreciate your story. I remember my late dad all the time while I am playing. He was my inspiration as a kid. I remember him playing his old Sho Bud that I now have . Again thanks and keep picking!
Best teacher of steel.
Thank you very much!
Keep picking!
Aaron this lesson means so much to me. Thank you so much. have to keep going over this. My memory is so horrible after these darn Strokes
Stay at it and try to work on the exercises every day. I hope you find some that will stay with you. I find that writing these out helps my retention so give that a try also .
Keep Picking!
Aaron
vincentlenci Take your medicine from the doctor. I assume to prevent blood clots. I also have medical frailties, but that is to be expected as a senior. Also, I play everything slowly. My brain is not fast anymore, so everything is slower: speech, walking, reading, playing, memory. Keep reading the Holy Bible every day. We want to play music, worshipping Our Lord in Heaven, in a simple, honest way.
Hi Aaron, Not sure if all guitars have this change but mine has a tunable split on the knee lever that lowers string 6 a full step. If I lower 6 and then add the B pedal that results in a minor on the same fret position. So for me on 8 with no pedals it’s a C. RKL and B pedal is Cm. Can be useful.
Love your lessons. Thank You !
Stephen, thanks for sharing. Good information!
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Aaron
Yeah Steve P. put splits on my 4,5&6 string.
It gives us a half step where it was only a whole step before adding the split.
Helps Tremendously.
So any position play 57&9 at the 5th position of the 1?
Nice lesson. Very interesting it shows the possibilities of the pedal steel.
Sergio the steel is really able to adapt to all styles of music. I suppose it just comes down to ones tastes .
Thanks for checking the videos out! Aaron
Yes, I'm very interested in playing pedal steel. Unfortunately it's quite hard and expensive to get one in Brazil. So I started following some lessons and performances and seaching for some information about some manufacturers. Regards and thanks for the feedback, Aaron.
The "steel steel guitar forum" has a lot of great info on it. If you have not checked it out yet it would be worth the visit . Also there will be guitars for sale on the site to.Thanks and all the best in your search. Aaron
Thank you very much. Your videos have helped me a lot
Karen, no problem glad the videos are helpful!
Keep picking! Aaron
Wow thanks so much!
Happy to help!
Nice content. Learned a few things. Thank you!
Larry keep it up and as always thanks! Aaron
Thank you for this
No problem!
Keep picking!
bunch a good stuff goin on on here thanks Aaron
Lester, glad that you enjoyed the video! Hope we are helping you with your picking!
Keep picking,Aaron
Thank you!
Thank you so much.
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Aaron
Thanks and God Bless.
God bless and thanks. Glad you liked the video! Hope they help.
Thanks. Aaron
Great lesson. How do you maintain the sustain for so long without the sound fading away? I'm fairly new at pedal steel
You can work with your volume pedal and vibrato on your bar. Try using a little more volume on your amp. As your notes die out you have the ability to help the sustain by adding more volume with your volume pedal. Watch my bar hand and you will notice I move it slightly from side to side { vibrato} when I get to the fret I am going to . This helps the notes sustain. I do a lot of these things from habit so it is sometimes hard to put them into words. Try these two things first and let me know. Hope this helps!
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Aaron
I appreciate that, been trying it, but I keep fluctuating the volume so it's uneven....not smooth
That's very helpful, thank you! But for my setup what you call F lever for me it's D lever (Left Knee pushing to the Right on my Emmons standard E9th setup, it would be the 2nd knee lever from le left).
Davide, that is one of the problems we face trying to learn and teach for the steel. There seems to be so many variations on the set up. It is not just the "Day" and "Emmons" set up anymore. I find that with a lot of the students I teach. We just have to work around what we have. I hope you can make it work out for you.
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Aaron
In the beginning of this lessons you mentioned how a
C F G..progression would go to a Fm ...?But then you showed C - Cm changes.Can you talk of the 4 chord going from maj.- minor in a progression?
Sorry for the confusion, just think of it as a way to see were you can get a minor voicing or chord. In this case it happens to be a Cmin. The 4 minor I am talking about in the opening is just one example of a progression that has a minor in it. 1, 4, 4min, 5, 1. C, F, Fmin, G, C .Hope this helps.
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Aaron
@@SteelPicking Thanks.If I find a riff per lesson Im in good shape and it adds to the repitoire!!
i have a question, stupid as it may be i must ask, so you can buy individual lessons, or you can join the premium channel for 1.99$ per month correct? and for that 1.99$ per month i get all the lessons that will be on the premium channel?
Not a stupid question at all, it's a little confusing. For the premium channel, you get a week early access to all standard videos on this channel and without ads. All paid videos on this channel are not offered on the Premium channel. The paid lessons are more in depth videos that are different from our standard videos that we post.
Hopefully this helps and feel free to ask any additional questions that you may have! Thanks and keep picking!
Oasis
Aaron so your the guy that does the sound effects in Horror/Scary movies (grin)
Could be... lol
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Aaron
WOW!
Thanks, Johnny!
I don't know if my brain is circuited closer to that of a human fly, but I can't watch this video slower than 1.75x speed... anyone else? It's just SOOOOO SLOOWWWWWWWWW
Andrew, some of the older vids are learning curves for me. My main focus is to brake it down for beginners. I do not know what the skill level is of most viewers so I make the videos more geared toward a beginner. And if 1.75 x will help skip you to the part of the video you want to learn faster go for it. That sounds like an good idea.
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Aaron
@@SteelPicking Totally!! And I wasn't trying to sound harsh, in fact you seem to have grasped exactly what I meant. I'm mostly just an impatient guy hahaha, school was always boring for me for that reason. So even tho I can't understand most of your words that fast, I can hear your playing quicker which i guess is a nice effect for an "overview" vibe.
No problem.
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3rd fret, a&b down, engage vertical lever?
Hey Stephen not real sure what you are asking? Could you restate your question for me thanks. My vertical lowers 5 and 10 a 1/2 also what string group are you playing. Thanks, Aaron
Stephen went to my guitar and worked on what I thought you were suggesting and you are correct. If your guitar has a compensator on it that will allow you to go from open C# with the A pedal down to C with A pedal and vertical B to Bb together and be true that would work. If you play this at the 3rd fret you achieve a C minor with group 5,6,8, 3rd fret A,B, and vertical down. Also you could play 5.,6,8, at the 3rd fret with A& B down that is a "C" chord than same group at the 3rd keep B down and 1/2 pedal the A pedal that would give you the C minor. Thanks for sharing and keep picking! Aaron
Do I just destroyed the world I'm living in intro
Good idea; thanks for the suggestion!
Keep picking!
Aaron