Dobro: Chords for a Country Arrangement

The chord reference for this chair. Pick a root, then any of 62 qualities, and get the shapes plus the thing a chord chart never tells you: what this chair does with the chord once the arrangement is running.

The dobro chair carries slide fills and turnaround answers, the same job the pedal steel does on records that carry one instead. Face-up in open tuning, a chord here is a bar laid straight across the neck, or tilted a fret or two, rather than a hand shape — every diagram below is such a bar position, and a quality open G cannot spell that way is marked instead of drawn.

Every shape below is drawn for GBDGBD, 6 strings, with the open shapes first and the movable ones up the neck after them, and each one plays back so you can hear it before it goes on a record.