I have never used one. I would say go to your local music store and try out some in your price range. With each one play around with the gain until you find something you like. And don’t let the price bog you down, the price of the pedals on my board range from $12–$200 U.S dollars.

Well honestly I feel like the community here can help in a lot of ways. A lot of us have taken Steve’s online courses. I know I have a taken a few of his. I don’t know everything but I am here and willing to help if you ever have any questions. That goes for anyone in the @GuitarZoom Community

I don’t play Christian music but; I would say an overdrive and chorus pedal would be a great start. I would also say whatever pedal; the sound you get depends on how high you set the gain/drive. Compressor, delay and noise gate are always good in any chain..in my opinion.

There are five notes to the pentatonic scale (penta=5) each note also represents a chord. Thus making five chords for the pentatonic scale. But the scales can be used in any key so technically we could say there are 12 chords. It’s all a matter of perspective when talking about these kind of things. But penta=5, dia=7. No matter what scale you’re playing there will be a chord for every note in said scale. The quality of the chord (ie major, minor or Demenished) will depend upon its location with in the scale your using. Example: in diatonic major scale we have 7 notes and 7 chord’s to match them. The I IV V will all be major in chord quality, the ii iii vi will all be minor in chord quality. The 7th note of the scale is Demenished. Hope that helps.

Ok first tuning. Buy a guitar tuner. That’s the best way to figure out the tuning part. When getting a note or chord, you want you finger to be right behind the fret wire/bar where when you push to strin into the fretboard your finger is touching the headstock side of the fret wire/bar. When learning to make a clean sounding note; you’ll have to play around with it as every guitar is setup slightly different. But the goal is to be able to make a clean and clear sounding note that rings out, with as little pressure as possible. You’re not trying to make the string touch the wood part of the fretboard, you are only trying make the string have a solid connection to the fret wire/bar. If you have to really bare down on the string to get it to touch the fret wire then your action is far to high.remember you don’t need to push the string all the way down into the wood. Play around with a single bit and start applying just a little pressure to the string while you pick it and keep adding more oresure until the note rings out; and that is exactly how much pressure you need to use. Then repeat the last but use two notes of the chord, then add the third all while trying to calculate the bare minimum of pressure needed to make the notes ring out clean and clear. I hope this helps. Please; Let me know if you have any other questions.