6/7 13th chords and 9th chords.
Use a lot of these chords, and slide them from a fret below up to pitch, or from a fret above and down to pitch. I'll give an example in the key of A
example - A13 (actually 6/7, but that's another matter) = 5-7-5-6-7-5......try 4-6-4-5-6-4 and slide up to 5-7-5-6-7-5. Divide the measure into 8 beats, (and 1 and 2 and 3 and 4), play the chord at fret 4 on the ands and the one on fret 5 for the numbers, and that's one basic commonly used pattern.
for D (the IV chord), you can either just do a similar thing up on the 10th fret or use a 9th chord in the same position as the A 5-4-5-5-5, slid up from 4-3-4-4-4
Same thing applies for the V chord -- just 2 frets up from the IV chord, same formations.
There are many, many other variations employed by the likes of Ray Benson and other masters, but this is just a rudimentary place to start in order to capture a little of the feel of the music. A lot of the chords stem from standard pedal steel tunings (C6th and E9th)
Matt
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Last edited by vac4873; 06-06-2009 at 01:04 PM.
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