Blues w/slide

[Steve Cunningham]

I almost never play mandolin with a slide...had a student ask me about it, and quickly recorded this little ditty as a demonstration. Doesn't sound as bad as I thought it would

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjEarsy4u6o

[Ranald]

Thanks, Phil. That's great. What tuning do you use?

Steve James has a slide mandolin tune in Roots and Blues Mandolin, p.42-3.

[Steve Cunningham]

Thanks Phil. Standard mandolin tuning.

[Ranald]

Sorry, Steve. I don't know if I'm going blind or senile. I see that I did call you "Steve" on your last thread.
I'm puzzled though as I've always heard that you need open tuning to play slide mandolin.
Now, I'll try to figure out who Phil is, and what I wanted to say to him.

[Steve Cunningham]

The ever elusive Phil.
You can play slide in any tuning, it just takes a fair amount of right hand muting.

[Ranald]

The ever elusive Phil.
You can play slide in any tuning, it just takes a fair amount of right hand muting.

Clearly, YOU can slide in standard tuning.
Phil will be excited to know!