Chords for introducing: the 2x4 lap steel diddley plank!

Tempo:
128 bpm
Chords used:

Ab

Bb

Gb

F

Abm

Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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introducing: the 2x4 lap steel diddley plank! chords
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Hello to all my subscribers, to Cigarbox Nation, to Handmade Music Clubhouse, all you freaks
that like homemade music.
Here's my newest build.
We have another plank.
Except this one's more like a diddly bow in the way that it's set, more like a lap steel
in the way that it's played.
It's not played with a stick and a slide, it's played with a pick and a slide.
It's actually set up and arranged much in the way that I build my traditional guitars.
Eye bolt tuners, bolts for alignment of the strings, and then a bolt for the nut in the bridge.
Tuned the same way as well, in open A, AEA fashion.
Here we come to the business end.
This is actually hollowed out underneath a little bit, so the piezo's glued up to the
bottom side of this plank of wood, and it gets a nice hot pickup from the bridge sitting here.
Strings pass directly through to the bottom, a little space drilled out where they are
passed through some nuts to keep them from countersinking in the wood.
The jack is wired up very simply with only two conductors, and it's set up with the same
kind of bolt I use for my tuners.
Just a wing nut on the bottom and an eye bolt on top, and it fits the jack perfectly.
You just put it in there, thread it down, tighten it up.
It's pretty sturdy, stays out of the way.
Put a staple or two down here against the wire just to make sure it stays down out of the way.
Could have done a fancier, but I didn't feel like it.
This is a very effective method.
Takes only a little bit of time to build it, and it sounds really, really good.
So this is practically an electric only instrument, and we'll see what we can do with it.
I don't even know where I can put it that you can see.
[Ab]
Let me see.
You know what?
Maybe we'll do an interesting one this time.
I'll put you right here [Abm] so you can watch me play it.
That'll be fun.
[Bb]
Still getting used to it, wrong finger.
[Ab] [F]
[Gb] [Bb]
[Ab] [F]
[Gb]
[Bb] Love [Ab] and hate, give [Fm] it a roll Cut [Gb] me right back [Ab] down [Bb] to size
Sleep the [Ab] day, let it [F] fade [Gb] Who's there to take [Abm] your [Bb] place?
No [Ab] one knows, never [F] will [Gbm] Mostly me, [Ab] mostly [Bb] you
Do [Ab] you say, what do you [F] do [Gb] When it all comes down?
[Db] I don't [Ab] wanna come back down [Gb] to this cloud It's taken me [Bb] all this time [Ab] to find out what [Gb] I need
again
[Db] I [Ab] don't wanna come back down [Gb] to this cloud
It's [Bb] taken me all this time
[Ab]
[Gb] [F]
[Bb] [Ab]
[F] [Gb]
[F] [Bb]
[N]
It's taken me all this time to find out what I need again
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Ab
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Bb
12341111
Gb
134211112
F
134211111
Abm
123111114
Ab
134211114
Bb
12341111
Gb
134211112
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_ _ _ Hello to all my subscribers, to Cigarbox Nation, to Handmade Music Clubhouse, _ all you freaks
that like homemade music.
Here's my newest build.
_ _ _ We have _ _ another _ plank.
Except this one's more like a diddly bow in the way that it's set, more like a lap steel
in the way that it's played.
It's not played with a stick and a slide, it's played with a pick and a slide.
It's actually set up and arranged much in the way that I build my traditional guitars.
_ Eye bolt tuners, _ bolts for alignment of the strings, and then a bolt for the nut in the bridge.
_ _ Tuned the same way as well, in open A, _ AEA fashion. _
_ _ _ _ Here we come to the business end.
_ This is actually hollowed out underneath a little bit, so the piezo's glued up to the
bottom side of this plank of wood, _ and it gets a nice hot pickup from the bridge sitting here.
_ Strings pass directly through to the bottom, _ a little space drilled out where they are
_ passed through some _ nuts to keep them from countersinking in the wood.
_ The jack is wired up very simply with only two conductors, _ _ and _ it's set up with the same
kind of bolt I use for my tuners.
Just a wing nut on the bottom and an eye bolt on top, and it fits the jack perfectly. _
You just _ put it in there, thread it down, tighten it up.
It's pretty sturdy, stays out of the way.
Put a staple or two down here against the wire just to make sure it stays down out of the way.
Could have done a fancier, but I didn't feel like it.
This is a very effective method.
Takes only a little bit of time to build it, and it sounds really, really good.
_ So this is practically an electric only instrument, _ and we'll see what we can do with it. _ _
_ _ _ _ I don't even know where I can put it that you can see. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
Let me see.
You know what?
Maybe we'll do an interesting one this time. _
_ _ _ I'll put you right here _ [Abm] so you can watch me play it.
That'll be fun. _
_ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
_ _ Still getting used to it, wrong finger. _ _
_ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ _ [Gb] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
_ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ _ _ [Gb] _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ Love [Ab] and hate, give [Fm] it a roll Cut [Gb] me right back [Ab] down [Bb] to size
Sleep the [Ab] day, _ let it [F] fade _ [Gb] Who's there to take [Abm] your [Bb] place?
No [Ab] one knows, never [F] will [Gbm] Mostly me, _ [Ab] mostly [Bb] you
Do [Ab] you say, what do you [F] do [Gb] When it all comes down?
[Db] _ _ I don't [Ab] wanna come back down [Gb] to this cloud It's _ _ taken me [Bb] all this time [Ab] to find out what [Gb] I need
again _ _ _
[Db] _ _ _ I [Ab] don't wanna come back down [Gb] to this cloud _ _
It's [Bb] taken me all this time
[Ab] _ _ _
_ [Gb] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [Gb] _ _
_ _ _ [F] _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
It's taken me all this time to find out what I need again _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

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