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THE DIFFICULTY WITH LEARNING MUSIC THEORY
Struggling to Learn Pedal Steel Guitar?
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IF THIS YOU . . .
Not sure how or where to start
Stuck in a rut even after years of playing
Don't know what to learn next
Running out of licks and ideas
Trying to learn via random YouTube lessons
. . . HERE'S THE FIX!
Paul de-mystifies learning with clearly structured beginner lessons — no bad habits, you'll start on the right path
Advanced lessons on chords, theory, and improvisation that will help you to break through plateaus
Step-by-step lessons guide you past sticking points to reach the next level
Paul teaches dozens of his classic recorded licks and solos, and how to adapt them to make them your own
Applicable to all music styles — Modern Country, Classic Country, Blues, Jazz, Rock & Pop!
THE DIFFICULTY WITH LEARNING MUSIC THEORY
Struggling to Learn Music Theory? You’re Not Alone.
Here’s How We Can Turn You Into A Better Musician —Fast!
WITHOUT MUSIC THEORY
Difficulty Learning Songs
Confused by Chord Types and Functions
Not Knowing Scale/Chord Relationships
Struggling With Modes
Stuck in a Songwriting Rut
WITH MUSIC THEORY THURSDAYS
Understand How Music Works in Any Style
Learn How to Build Chords and Scales
Play Better Solos and Phrases
Figure Out Songs and Licks Faster
Unlock Your Unique Voice on Any Instrument
This Course is Perfect For You If...
. . . you're just getting started
Paul breaks down concepts into easily learned lessons so you play the right way, right away
. . . you've been playing for years
Advanced lessons on chords, theory, and improvisation are waiting for you to take the next step
If you struggle to discuss your ideas with other musicians
Music theory provides a common language for musicians, allowing them to communicate more effectively with one another. This shared vocabulary enables clearer discussions about musical concepts, facilitates collaboration, and helps musicians convey complex ideas more efficiently. Whether you're working in a band, orchestra, or with a solo artist, this common language can significantly improve rehearsals, performances, and creative sessions.
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MUSIC THEORY THURSDAYS CURRICULUM
Here's What You'll Learn!
With our curriculum, you’ll learn to apply music theory concepts on your instrument, even if
you’re starting from scratch.
Foundations & Setup:
Getting started on the instrument — the "before you play" essentials.
Getting Ready to Play
The Pedals & Levers
Tools: Picks and Bar
Gear and Guitars
Technique:
How you physically play — both hands, the bar, and mechanics.
Pick Hand Techniques
Bar Techniques
The Permutations
Mastering Pedal Squeezes
Volume Pedal, Bar Pressure
Licks & Vocabulary:
The language of pedal steel — ready-to-use musical phrases and ideas.
Intros, Licks & Fills
E9 Vocabulary: 50 Licks & Phrases
Classic Country Styles
What Was I Thinking: Solo Analysis
Chords & Harmony:
The theoretical backbone — chords, scales, modes, and harmonic concepts.
Chords: Major and Minor
Harmony: Major & Minor
More Chords
Harmony: Extensions & Substitutions
Harmony: The Modes
Musicianship & Phrasing
Playing musically, not just technically — with feel, expression, and artistry
Musicianship
Phrasing
Backing a Singer
Thinking Outside the Box
Strategies
The C6 Neck:
A complete sub-course dedicated to the C6 tuning.
C6 Essentials
C6 Harmony
C6 Improv
C6 Licks
C6 Blues & Swing Basics
Resources & Inspiration:
Reference materials, master interviews, and community learning
PDFs, Charts, TAB, MP3 backing tracks
Interviews: Lloyd Green, Tommy White Dann Huff
Seminar Highlights
Best of the Facebook Group
Styles & Application:
Putting it all together across real musical genres and contexts.
Modern Steel Styles
Classic Country Styles
Phrasing (grooves & feels)
MUSIC THEORY THURSDAYS CURRICULUM
Here's What You'll Learn!
With our curriculum, you’ll learn to apply music theory concepts on your instrument, even if
you’re starting from scratch.
Intervals: The Foundation of Music
Essential for Learning Scales and Modes
The Building Blocks of Harmony
Improves and Informs Musical Memory
Triads: The Roots of Harmony
Learn the Four Types of Triads
Essential for Chord Theory
Analyze Chord Progressions
Scales: The Horizontal Dimension
Emotional Backbone of Music
Basis for Melody and Harmony
Essential for Improv and Composition
Chords: The Vertical Domain
Stack Intervals for Larger Chords
Add Depth and Color to Compositions
Supercharge Songs and Solos
Modes: The Musical Spice
Emotional Color and Harmonic Possibilities
Add Depth to Songs and Solos
Expand Vocabulary and Expression
Chord Progressions: The Song Structure
Understand Tension and Resolution
Recognize Common Progressions
Break the Rules, Create Your Own
Ear Training: The Secret Skill
Audibly Identify Intervals, Chords, and Progressions
Essential for Transcription, Improvisation, and Musicianship
Enhance Communication With Other Musicians
And Much More:
Exploring Rhythm, Time, and Feel
Analyzing Compositions: Form and Structure
The Art of Counterpoint: Combining Multiple Melodic Lines
Composing and Arranging for Different Instruments and Ensembles
Advanced Music Theory for Session Musicians
Nashville Number System Explained
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- A Message From Paul
- Latest News & Lessons
- How To Join the Facebook Group
- About Your PFM Bundle!
- All Our Courses
- How to Navigate the Course
- The Parts of the Pedal Steel Guitar
- Tuning Your Guitar - By Ear
- Tuning Levers With Pedals
- Other Ways of Tuning the E9th
- Changing Your Strings
- For 6-String Guitarists
- Harmonic Centers for 6-String Guitarists
- Open Strings and Intervals
- The Four String Groups
- Chord Names on the Fretboard
- The Open Strings-QUIZ
- Fretboard By The Numbers
- Nashville Number System - PDF
- The E9 Tuning In Intervals
- Why Is My Guitar Tuned Like This? - TEXT
- Fretboard and Pedals (A&B)
- Thinking In Intervals - PDF
- E9 Tuning-QUIZ
- The Four String Groups - QUIZ
- Chord Names On The Fretboard -QUIZ
- How to Sit Behind the Guitar
- How to Read TAB
- Learning
- For Beginners Only!
- History Behind The E9th Floor Pedals
- Basic E9th Pedals & Knee Levers
- The Pedals-QUIZ
- Pedals and Chords - QUIZ
- Adjusting the Pedals
- Rocking The Pedals
- Knee Lever Placement
- Volume Pedal Basics
- Using the Volume Pedal for Expression
- Volume Pedal Mastery
- Mastering Pedal Squeezes
- The Emotional Sound of the Pedals
- PF4 And Pedal Placement
- Pedal Exercises
- Choices For Picking Techniques
- The Picks - Why The Choice Matters
- Mastering The Bar (Tuning and Tone)
- Bar Pressure
- Intro to the Permutations
- Perms 1-4
- Perms 5-8
- Perms 9-12
- Perms 13-16
- Perms 17-20
- Perms 21-24
- Permutations: Melodic Shapes
- Permutations: Melodic Subtraction
- Combining Permutations
- Warming Up Your Right Hand
- The Arpeggio
- House of the Rising Sun TAB PDF
- Blocking
- Pick Blocking
- Blocking the "Picked Rake"
- Creative Speed Picking: Permutations
- Scale Permutations TAB - PDF
- Applying Permutations TAB - PDF
- Chimes
- Chimes Exercise
- Viewing Paul's Right-Hand Technique
- 3 Element Blocking: Buddy Emmons
- 3-Element Blocking: Tommy and Buddy
- Building Speed
- Building Speed Pt 2
- My Right Hand
- Blocking With Chords Pt. 1
- Blocking With Chords Pt. 2
- Building Finger Strength
- West Coast Attitude
- Technique Extension
- Bar Precision: Playing In Tune
- Bar Exercises
- Controlling The Bar
- Slants
- Backward Bar Slants
- Bar Slant Exercises
- Viewing Paul's Bar Technique
- Vibrato Concepts
- A Deeper Look Into Vibrato Techniques
- Hammer On Exercise
- Exercise for Bar and Pedal Coordination
- The Four String Groups (Major)
- Major Chord Piano & Click - Practice Tracks
- The Four String Groups (Minor)
- Minor Chords-QUIZ
- Minor Chord Piano & Click - Practice Tracks
- Timing: Working With A Metronome
- Practicing The String Groups
- The 1-4-5 Progression
- More On 1-4-5 Progressions
- Goodnight Ladies TAB - PDF
- 1-4-5 - Piano & Click Practice Tracks
- 1-4-5 Chords In Every Key - PDF
- Major Chord Workout
- Minor Chord Workout
- Chord Progression Workout
- Chord Progressions
- Must-Know Chord Positions
- Basic Music Theory - PDF
- Major Scale Key Of C
- Basic Harmony - PDF
- Major Scale Harmonies
- Harmonizing the Major Scale In 3rds
- Applying the Harmonized Major Scale Pt 1
- Applying the Harmonized Major Scale Pt 2
- Two-Note Major Scale Harmonies
- Alternate I to IV Chord Moves
- New Discovery: Chromatic/Diatonic Lick
- New Discovery Part 2
- Thinking Simply: Major Chords
- Thinking Simply: Minor Chords
- E9 Minor Approach - Pt 1
- E9 Minor Approach - Pt 2
- E9 Minor Approach - Pts 3 & 4
- Relative Major Licks Over Em
- Modern Chord Voicings
- Putting It All Together
- Next Level Diatonics
- Approach Chords For Diatonics
- Major Chord Modulations
- Beautiful Maj7 Voicings
- Open String Chords
- Harmonized Scale Over Minor Chords
- Applying The Modes: Ionian Melody
- Applying the Ionian Mode "Danny Boy"
- Pads and Power Chords
- Dominant 7th Chords
- Sliding Into 7ths With Pedals
- More Positions For 7ths, 9ths & 13ths
- Playing The Blues
- Simple Blues Progression
- Dominant 7th Workout: Chart & Track
- The Major 6th
- The 'add9 & 'add2' Chords
- Using the Flat5
- Diminished Chords
- Augmented Chords: Basic Positions
- Using An Augmented Chord
- Augmented Chord Progressions
- Augmented Chord Progressions TAB - PDF
- Extending Fretboard Knowledge
- Expanding The E9 Neck
- E9 Chord Substitutions
- Modern E9th Chords: Diatonics & Intervals
- Chromatic Scale Positions - E9
- Color Chords Using Intervals
- Thoughts On Chords: Tritone Subs & Extensions
- Welcome
- How To Study This Material
- How to Find the Modes
- The Major Scale Tone Approach
- The Derivative Approach
- Practice Tips For Mastering Modes
- E lonian Mode Lesson and Practice Track
- E Dorian Mode Lesson and Practice Track
- E Phrygian Mode Lesson and Practice Track
- E Lydian Mode Lesson and Practice Track
- E Mixolydian Mode Lesson and Practice Track
- E Aeolian Mode Lesson and Practice Track
- E Locrian Mode Lesson and Practice Track
- Setting the Amp for Tone
- Setting Amp Volume
- Using Compensators
- Copedent Advice
- Paul's Effects Settings
- Memory Man
- Special Effects: The EH MEL9 Pedal
- Special Effects: The EH BASS9 Pedal
- Special Effects: The EH C9 Pedal
- Special Effects: The EH STRING9 Pedal: AARP
- Special Effects: The EF Key9 Pedal Tri-Glorious
- Tone Tips Pt 1
- Tone Tips Pt 2
- Tone Tips Pt 3
- Facebook Group
- Filling In The Gaps
- Nashville Session Players
- Why A Metronome?
- Strategies: Morphing
- Finding Your Own Path
- Foundational Fills: Intro
- Foundational Fills 1-10
- West Coast Style: Above and Beyond
- West Coast 1511
- Weldon Myrick Shuffle 1511
- Advanced 1511
- Additional Bakersfield - BACKING TRACKS
- Farewell Party
- 511 Ballad
- 5511 Ballad Advanced
- 5511 Traditional Country
- Additional 5511 Ballad - BACKING TRACKS
- 5 to 1 Resolution
- Banjo Roll
- West Coast Country
- 1 To 1dom7
- Bakersfield Hammer-On
- Pull-offs
- The Rake
- Chordal Pull-Offs
- Walk Down to the 1 Chord
- 5 to 1 Ballad
- Pentatonic - 70's Country Style
- 60's Country: 5-1 Walk-Down
- Memphis Groove
- Western Swing Style
- Beautiful Ballad Phrase: 1 - ldom7
- Rock Style
- Speed Exercise
- My Baby Thinks He's A Train
- Thinks He's A Train TAB - PDF
- 1 to 4 with C6 Sounds
- C6 Sounds 1 to 4 TAB - PDF
- Chromatic Fill Licks
- Chromatics on E9
- Hammer-On Licks
- Bluegrass Ending Licks
- Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain
- Four PF4 Licks
- A Dozen Speed Licks #1 - #12
- I to IV Speed Lick "B-Bender"
- Single Chord Licks #1 - #4
- Flashy Lick Ideas
- 1 to 4 Ballad Lick
- Cajun Steel Lick
- Rock Guitar Bending Lick
- Flashy Minor Lick
- Double-Stop Minor Lick
- Unison Bend Minor Lick
- Pedals Down Minor Lick
- Minor Ballad Lick
- "C6 on E9" I to IV Move
- MinMaj7 Chord Move
- E9 Open String Drone Lick
- Americana Lick
- Chromatic Scale
- Chromatic Scales Pt 2
- Stock Pickups
- Major 7th Lick 1
- Major 7th Lick 2
- I'll Come Running
- Ballad Lick #1
- Ballad Lick #2
- Universal Lick
- Introduction to Texas Country
- One More Time
- Foolin' Around - The Intro
- Foolin' Around - The Solo
- Vocabulary Study Guide
- 1) - Modern Walk Down
- 2) - 60's Nashville Country Walk Up
- 3) - Funky B&C
- 4) - Four-chord Ending Lick
- 5) - PF Lick
- 6) - Chicken Pickin' In F
- 7) - Bakersfield Whammy
- 8) - 4 to 1 Melodic Lick
- 9) - Chord Cluster Ending/Fill
- 10) - Hot Wired EDO
- 11) - Diatonic Cascade
- 12) - PF's Easy Speed Lick - 5dom7
- 13) - Resolution Licks
- 14) - Descending 4 to 1: Modern Harmony
- 15) - Fast Banjo-style Lick
- 16) - Minor Key Chord Lick
- 17) - Aggressive Dom7th Chord Walk
- 18) - 70's Speed Sliding in G
- 19) - Up The Scale
- 20) - Open String Lick
- 21) - Walk Of Life: 1 to 4
- 22) - Bakersfield, Indiana
- 23) - Wide-Grip Lick
- 24) - Walk Down Lick in G
- 25) - The Infamous Rake
- 26) - Minor Walk-down Licks
- 27) - Blues Rock Rake
- 28) - 90's Country Voicings
- 29) - Jazz Up the E9th
- 30) - G7th Chromatic: Combining 2 Licks
- 31) - Nervous Breakdown
- 32) - Loose Changes
- 33) - Jeff Beck Whammy Lick
- 34) 1 - 3dom7 - 6m Move
- 35) - Ascending Train Beat
- 36) - 90's Country Hats
- 37) - Pickups
- 38) - Uptempo Intro
- 39) - Lap Steel Vibe
- 40) - Hook Lick
- 42) - Unison Rake
- 41) - Time Jumpin' Ballad Lick
- 43) - Easy to Play Fast Lick
- 44) - Blues Rock Ideas
- 45) - Get Your Mind Right
- 46) - Liquid Lick
- 47)- Downward Sliding Cascade
- 48) - Bottleneck Lick
- 49) - Minor Chord Rake Lick
- 50) - 2-String Ballad Walk
- Introduction To Backing A Singer
- Pads: Applying The Harmonized Scale
- Fills: Playing in The Gaps
- Counterpoint and Connecting Phrases
- Playing to the Lyric
- Fills: Expanding Your Toolbox
- Shenandoah: A Complete Breakdown of A Recording Session
- Some Further Comments
- Together Again
- All My Exes
- The Bottle Let Me Down
- Don't You Ever Get Tired?
- When I Call Your Name
- I'll Breakout Again Tonight
- Approach Notes
- Applying Approach Notes
- Pivoting / Pedal Tones
- Counterpoint
- Connecting: The Volume Pedal
- Connecting: Pedal Squeezes
- Connecting: Vibrato & Slides
- Technique Options: Drum Rudiments
- Technique Options: Piano Licks
- Technique Options: Hal Rugg Licks
- Knowing Intervals in Any Tuning - TEXT
- Permutations As Shapes: Pt 1
- Permutations As Shapes: Pt 2
- Open String Licks
- Pulling Tone
- Creative Arrangements
- Applying Intervals - Pt 1
- Applying Intervals - Pt 2
- C6 Sounds on the E9: Turnarounds
- Translating C6 Sounds to E9
- Putting Improv Concepts Together
- How to Build New Licks
- Buddy's "Donna Lee" Chromatics
- Jazz Blues on E9
- Steel Drum & Marimba Muting Effect
- E9: Mapping The Fretboard
- Jamming Using PFM Concepts E9 & C6
- Targeted Muting
- Bringing Out The Upper Voice
- Modernize Your Fills
- Intervallic Playing: Adding Approach Notes
- Intervals Over Chords
- Technique & Expression
- Pulling Tone Expanded
- Playing In Tune
- Playing Full
- Learning the Fretboard
- Creating Vocabulary
- Phrasing
- Out of the Box
- Out of the Box: Ralph Mooney
- Out of the Box: Weldon Myrick
- Out of the Box: Lloyd Green
- Out of the Box: Tom Brumley
- Out of the Box: Pete Drake
- Out of the Box: John Hughey
- Out of the Box: Buddy Emmons
- Introduction To Phrasing
- Phrasing Part 1
- Phrasing Part 2
- Chord Structure for a Modern Groove
- Swinging Over a Modern Groove
- Grooves & Feels With Billy Thomas
- Train Beat Groove
- Cajun/Zydeco Groove
- Half Time Feels
- Buck & Ray Shuffles
- Ballads
- 3/4 Time
- Blending Styles
- Bo Diddley/Clave Grooves
- Flat Tire Shuffle
- 90's Shuffle
- Boogaloo
- Waylon Groove
- Billy's Pocket & Conclusion
- Phrasing: Developing Themes
- Learning By Listening
- Sounds and Techniques
- Crafting a Rock Solo
- Joe Walsh Style
- Americana Music
- Ambient Pedal Steel
- Preparing to Sacred Steel
- Hippie Steel
- Hippie Steel Part 2
- The C6 Neck: Overview
- C6: Tuning The Open Strings
- C6 Open Tuning-QUIZ
- C6: Tuning the Pedals & Levers
- C6: Fretboard Explained
- C6: Open Strings Explained
- Chords in Open Tuning - QUIZ
- C6 Essentials Etude #1 - PDF
- Differences Between E9 and C6
- E9 to C6: The Difference (for Toolbox Students)
- Thoughts on the Tuning & Buddy's Setup
- C6: Buddy Emmons Pedal Setup
- C6: Tuning the Emmons Pedal Setup
- C6: Paul's Pedal Setup
- C6: Chord Pockets (Maj & Min)
- C6: Single Note Pockets - Pt 1
- C6: Single Note Pockets Pt 2
- C6: PFM Blues Pt 1
- C6: PFM Blues Pt2
- PFM Blues Backing Tracks - MP3s
- C6: Blues With Extensions Pt 1
- C6: Blues With Extensions Pt 2
- C6 Chord Chart-PDF
- C6: 2-5-1 Progression
- C6: Harmonized Scale in 3rds and 4ths
- C6: Turnaround Progression 3m 6 2m 5
- E9 Sounds on C6
- Translate C6th to Lap Steel
- C6: Big Band Turnaround Changes
- All My Exes
- Lenny's Lesson
- C6 Finger-Style Creative Concepts
- C6 Triads Over Bass Notes
- C6: Applying Intervals to Build Chords
- How to Access Minor Chords
- Exploring C6 Common Tones
- C6: Alt Dom/ Chords: The #5 Interval
- C6 Altered Dom/: The #9 Interval
- C6 Moving From 1 to 4: Diminished to Min7
- Moving From 1 to 4: Sus Chords
- C6 Moving From 4 to 5: #9 Sounds
- C6 Moving From 4 to 5: Counterpoint
- C6 Using 2-5 to the 4 Chord Pt 1
- C6 Using 2-5 to the 4 Chord Pt 2
- Moving From 4 to 5: 13th Interval
- Moving From 4 to 5: Maj9 & Diminished
- Moving 4 to 5: Strategies
- Moving From 4 to 1: Diminished Sounds
- C6: Playing Chord to Chord
- C6: Study Strategies
- C6: 2-5-1 Eb and Bb
- C6: Pedal Change
- C6: Intervallic Improv VS Scales
- Soloing Advice - Pt 1
- C6 Giant Steps Pt 1
- C6 Giant Steps Pt 2
- C6 Giant Steps Pt 3
- C6 Giant Steps Progression and TRACKS
- Intervalic Improv - Resolving 7ths Into Minors
- C6 Intervallic Improv: Resolving Chords
- C6 Jazz & Swing Chromatic Pockets
- C6: Jazz Blues
- Lick 1: Bluesy Pull-Off
- Lick 2: Blues Roll
- Lick 3: Jazzy Blues
- Lick 4: Funky Horn Section
- C6: Minor Chords Using Permutations
- C6: Jazz Phrasing On A Minor Key Pop Tune
- C6: Jazzy Notes For Majors & Dom 7ths
- C6: Phrasing Over Rhythm Changes
- C6: Lick #1- #12
- C6 Single Chord Lick #1 - #4
- C6: Swing Grips Ex 1 - 3
- C6:4 to 1 Chord Lick
- C6: Open String Lick
- C6:4 to 1 Chord Lick
- C6: I to4Chord Lick
- C6: Honky Tonk Lick
- Essential Groups and Chord Positions
- Chord Theory & Progressions
- How To Create A Facebook Account
- Improvisation
- Applying The Basics
- Bluegrass Backup and Soloing
- Right or Wrong
- Interval Memorization Application
- E9 Blues
- Difficult Is Good
- Applying Your Interval Knowledge
- Chord Tones and Extensions
- How to Maximize the Paul Franklin Method - PDF
- Lesson Notes Template
- Blank Chord Sheets
- PFM Course Outline & TOC
- Paul's Copedent 2020
- TAB Basics - PDF
- Basic Harmony - PDF
- Basic Music Theory - PDF
- Chord Formulas-PDF
- Major Scales and Triads - PDF
- Cycle Of 4ths and 5ths - PDF
- Chord Substitutions
- The Harmonized Scale
- Browser Settings for PDF files
- Thoughts On Chords - TEXT & PDF
- Suggested Listening - LINKS
- Some Pedal Steel Resources - LINKS
- Background Drones In Various Keys - DRONES
- Tracks - Shuffle and Ballad - DRUMBEATS
- Tracks In All Keys
- Blank Tab Sheet-PDF
- C5 Paul's Christmas Collection
- Lloyd Green Parts 1-7
- Tommy White Part 1of2
- Tommy White Part 2 of 2
- Dann Huff Part 1
- Dann Huff Part 2
- Tuning
- Chimes and Picks
- Buddy Emmons
- Tilting the Pedal Steel
- Bar Issues
- Jerry Reed
- Chorus Effect
- Vibrato Skills
- Change The Learning Mindset
- Emotion and Accuracy (1 of 2)
- Paul Franklin Seminar (2 of 2)
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Music theory provides a common language for musicians, allowing them to communicate more effectively with one another. This shared vocabulary enables clearer discussions about musical concepts, facilitates collaboration, and helps musicians convey complex ideas more efficiently. Whether you're working in a band, orchestra, or with a solo artist, this common language can significantly improve rehearsals, performances, and creative sessions.
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. . . you struggle coming up with phrases and solos
Supercharge your improvising with knowledge of scales - including Pentatonic and Modes
. . . you have a hard time explaining your ideas to other musicians
Improve your ability to express your ideas using the universal language of music theory
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We’re confident this program will benefit you, and are giving you a 30-day, no-questions-asked, money-back guarantee on the annual plan. If you don’t love your results, we’ll refund your money—simple as that.
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PRICING
Here's a Breakdown of Everything You Get Today.
Get an exclusive look into everything you'll be learning to start apply Music Theory.
PAY MONTHLY - MOST FLEXIBLE
$20/mo
CANCEL AND REJOIN ANYTIME
Members-Only Community
Weekly interactive sessions w/ Bryan
All sessions recorded for repeat viewing
Cancel and rejoin on your schedule
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What is The Paul Franklin Method?
The Paul Franklin Method is a streaming video course brought to you by Modern Music Masters.
Launched in 2018 and added to continuously since then , the course library now contains over 580 wide-ranging lessons. More are added on a regular basis.
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.
You’ll have all the necessary close-up shots of Paul’s bar hand, pick hand and the pedals and levers, and perspectives. This complete approach to teaching is what Paul means when he calls the Method a “living, breathing course”.
We are aiming to set a standard of quality and completeness. You should be able to start from scratch and come out playing at a high level. Paul has committed to keep teaching as long as students are willing to learn.
How is this different from Paul's E9 Foundations courses?
Foundations I and II are Paul’s starter courses for pedal steel guitar. All of the material in both Foundations courses are also contained The Method, which then continues on from the basics and goes deeper into all aspects of the PSG.
How is this course different than other pedal steel courses I see online?
Pedal Steel Guitar and Musician’s Hall of Famer Paul Franklin is a master player and a master teacher. With decades of experience teaching 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 legends, 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 styles 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. He toured the world with Dire Straits, is currently touring with Chris Stapleton, 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.
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How quickly will I get access?
After you have enrolled, you will get instant access to the program. Within a few minutes, you will be inside the infrastructure, and you can start learning.
What’s the refund policy?
Since our satisfaction rate is over 99%, we are confident we can offer you a 30-day money-back guarantee on the yearly plan.
Do I really get access to a private Facebook community?
Yes! We have built our Facebook group to share the most relevant topics and connect you with Paul and your fellow aspiring pedal steel students and musicians. You can share your comments and thoughts on all things musical and more.
FAQS
Frequently Asked Questions.
Should you not find the answer to your question here, please reach out to our help desk for assistance.
How quickly will I get access?
After you have enrolled, you will get instant access to the program. Within a few minutes, you will be inside the infrastructure, and you can start learning.
What’s the refund policy?
Since our satisfaction rate is over 99%, we are confident we can offer you a 14-day money-back guarantee on the monthly plan.
Can I access Music Theory Thursdays on both iOS and Android?
Yes, you can access Music Theory Thursdays on both iOS and Android devices with internet connection. The service is fully compatible with smartphones running either operating system, allowing you to access all of its video editing features regardless of which device you use. This makes it versatile and accessible for musicians no matter their device or location.
Do I really get access to a private community?
Yes! We have built our program to share the most relevant topics and connect you with other aspiring music theory students and musicians. You can share your comments and thoughts on all things musical and more.
Do I really get weekly live lessons with a $20/month product?
Yes. We aim to make this the only program you need to succeed in learning music theory. However, we also know that an online course alone will not answer every one of the specific questions you may have. That's why we provide regular Q&A sessions with Bryan with guest appearances from professional musicians you will know, to answer your questions and give you the best experience possible.
