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Originally Posted by ddp
Most styles of slide use some kind of open tuning. It is just more practical.
Lap steel, pedal steel and dobro all use open tunings.
I have been playing in dobro tuning quite a bit lately which is
GBDGBD which is interesting because something you learn on the top 3 strings will work on the bottom 3 as well.
Only style i can think of that would use a standard tuning is when you are playing a regular guitar and mixing regular fretted planing with slide.
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Derek Trucks, Who's arguably the greatest electric slide player alive, now uses standard tuning. Its better because you can drop the slide and still play conventionally. Its harder to learn that way, but its worth it. Who am I to talk, I suck at slide guitar!