F# on the Dobro

All 62 qualities on the root F#, 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 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.