A m7b9 on E9 Pedal Steel, and the Number That Writes It

A m7b9 spells A – Bb – C – E – G, and a Nashville chart can call it in any key. With no pedal or lever down, no straight bar or short slant on the E9 neck sounds it: at every fret the strings that land on its tones leave one out, or too few of them ring.

The pedals and knee levers are what change that — each one retunes a string under the bar — and this reader's key pages draw them where a chart needs them, every change of a chart as a pedal move. This page charts the open strings only, and draws no grip a steel cannot hold.

A answers to the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and the 7 depending on what got called: it is a plain number in 7 of the twelve keys and needs an accidental in the other 5.