Lap Steel

Lap Steel Tunings

Open G Lap Steel Tuning
The most common tuning for acoustic steel guitar (Dobro) is open G:

D
B
G
D
B
G

This tuning is great because you have three sets of strings one octave apart for each note in a major chord. This allows you to play the same thing an octave higher or lower by just moving down (or up) [...]