The Foundations course is designed to give beginners and intermediates a start-from-scratch method to learn how to play the pedal steel guitar.

All of the basics you need to play songs are here.

Paul shows you the essential skills, techniques and musicianship needed to get you onstage and playing.

Foundations: E9 Pedal Steel Basics is a streaming video course hosted by Modern Music Masters. Your enrollment includes 12 months of access.

Unlike a private lesson, 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, perspectives you simply could not get all at once at a private lesson.

The Course is comprised of video content, downloadable PDFs, TABs and practice backing tracks.

The course videos are available to stream online 24/7, and can be paused, fast-forwarded, slowed down.

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.

Foundations: E9 Pedal Steel Guitar Basics covers the necessary skills you'll need to play music on the E9 tuning.

You can refer to each Course's syllabus to see the difference in Lessons taught.

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

The Foundations course is one single payment of $99. For that you get a 12-month long enrollment, 24/7 access to the lessons.

Should you decide to continue on with the complete Paul Franklin Method, we will send you a discount code to apply 100% of the $99 towards any of The Method's payment plans.

Foundations is great for beginners, but players at all levels can benefit from the materials presented.

The technique and musicianship essentials taught in the Course are what Paul still works on to this day in his practice sessions.

The pedal steel guitar is complex, but not complicated when you learn it the way Paul teaches it.

The Course gets you playing chords and music right away and everything that follows is built from there. Once you learn how the instrument works, the rest is practice!

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.

All Paul Franklin courses are available online 24/7 on any device with an internet connection.

The Course can be viewed on desktop computers and most mobile devices – phones, tablets, laptops – as long as they have a compatible 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.

You can watch the videos as often as you’d like (this is encouraged) throughout your enrollment.

Paul teaches using the standard pedal setups as used by Buddy Emmons, Jimmy Day, Lloyd Green, Rusty Young, Tom Brumley, etc. Pedal placement is your personal preference, so Paul refers to them as “A”, “B” or “C” pedals. Wherever you have those changes on your guitar is your call.

On the E9 tuning, you should have the two basic knee levers that raise and lower the 4th and 8th strings a half-tone (E to F and E to Eb)

The Foundations videos are not available for download.

However other items like PDFs and MP3s are. Your enrollment allows you access to view the videos online 24/7 for 12 months.