E on the Lap Steel

All 62 qualities on the root E, in 10 families, drawn for this chair. Most country songs use three or four of them; the rest are here for the turnaround that reaches further.

The lap steel chair carries a held chord under the singer — the bar laid across the strings, slid into place and left to ring. Its strings are already tuned to a chord, CEGACE, so there is no shape to make — only a fret to lay the bar on, and the slide that gets it there in time for the change. Every diagram below is a straight bar or a short slant, and a quality this tuning cannot spell that way is marked instead of drawn.