Steve Fishell explains how pedal steel guitar works

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Emmylou Harris's pedal steel ace shows us how it's done • Gear demos playlist: http://goo.gl/30cAf Subscribe for more from Guitarist: http://goo.gl/2PRXE • Watch the video to see Steve demonstrate how his ZumSteel D-10's mechanisms can make magically expressive sounds. • Steve walks us round the instrument, explaining why -- in the world of pedal steel -- a guitarist's legs aren't just used for knee slides, but for changing pitch. We got excited when he told us there was a bar involved, but it turns out that's just another of the note-forming tools that makes pedal steel such a tough but rewarding discipline... • The pedal steel is really simply a horizontal guitar tuned to a chord with pedals and knee levers that allow you to alter the chord that it's tuned to, Steve explains. It's basically tuned to an open E chord on the outside neck, which is E, G#, B -- just the way you have an open E chord on a regular guitar. • Actually, the neck most commonly heard in recorded music today is called the E9 tuning. The floor pedals and knee levers allow you to alter that chord just as a guitarist would if they were playing a barred chord and wanted to add a 7th or a 9th or whatever. • Guitarist on Apple Newsstand: http://goo.gl/c0aR3 • Subscribe to Guitarist magazine: http://goo.gl/UJ0cu • Visit our website: http://www.guitarist.co.uk • Facebook: / guitaristmagazine • Twitter: / guitarist_mag

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