Modern Music Masters, Inc

C6 Essentials is for E9 players that want to begin exploring the versatile C6 tuning . You need to have a commensurate skill level of picking, blocking and pedal techniques to benefit from this course. Those techniques are taught in the E9 course "Foundations: E9 Pedal Steel Basics".
This course is for applying those techniques using the C6 tuning. You will learn the basic skills necessary to eventually play on the C6 tuning at a high level, regardless of genre or style.

The C6 Essentials course is designed to give players a contemporary approach to learning and playing the C6 tuning.

Paul's modern method de-mystifies and clarifies where to find all "the good stuff on the back neck".

The Paul Franklin Method is Paul’s online academy that covers everything you need to know to master both the E9 and C6 tunings. As a bonus, it also offers an optional private Facebook group where students and teacher can interact.

C6 Essentials is drawn from the C6 lessons in the full Method and covers the necessary skills you'll need to play music on the C6 tuning.

NOTE: Optional private Facebook Group access is only available when enrolled in The Paul Franklin Method

The C6 tuning is different than the E9 and requires perspective. But it is not complicated when you learn it the way Paul teaches it.

Once you learn how the tuning works, the rest is practice!

C6 Essentials course is one single payment of $99. For that you get unlimited 24/7 access to the lessons for one full year.

C6 Essentials is an on-line streaming video course that you access via your device's browser.

You can review the materials by watching the videos over and over, use the video player to slow things down, and print out TABs and other relevant lesson materials.

The Course is comprised of video content, downloadable PDFs TABs, and MP3 Backing Tracks.

On the C6 tuning, the standard Buddy Emmons setup is taught.

The course can be viewed on desktop computers and mobile devices – phones, tablets, laptops – as long as you have a supported browser on them and they are connected to the internet. You will need to keep your OS and browser fairly current as how browsers display items changes over time. For example, in the Mac world, you may need iOS 16.x or higher.

All Paul Franklin courses are available online 24/7 on any device with an internet connection. Pedal Steel Guitar and Musician's Hall of Famer Paul Franklin is a master player and a master teacher. With decades of experience teaching via cassette and in person at clinics and seminars, the arrival of online teaching finally allowed Paul to reach many more players and get deeper into subjects that earlier methods and in-person appearances cannot rival.

Paul draws on his five decades of live and studio playing with a who's-who of musical titans, from Country titans like George Strait, Alan Jackson and many others to Barbra Streisand, Harry Connick, Jr. and Megadeth. He is expert on both E9 and C6 tunings and has an encyclopedic knowledge of classic steel styes from the early masters of the instrument. Paul was mentored by legends like Buddy Emmons, Lloyd Green, Pete Drake, Weldon Myrick, Hal Rugg, John Hughey, all fellow Hall of Famers. His guitar dominated the charts during the Country boom of the '90=80's and '90's, he toured the world with Dire Straits and continues to be the first-call pedal steel player in the Nashville studio scene.

From ripping Rock, to twangy Country, to Jazz, to Western Swing and all points in between, Paul honors the past and keeps pushing the instrument forward. It is his desire to share all of the knowledge he has acquired for future generations to study and carry the pedal steel guitar torch into the future.