I started
slide only a month and a half ago or so. I tried standard tuning at first and got nowhere. I then tuned down to open G, and then fell in love with open D. However....much of my playing is with friends, and I quickly found out that transpoding all our jam tunes, or retuning etc...etc...is a total pain in the ass...so in the last few weeks I've made a devoted effort to slide in standard tuning, so that I can throw slide in a jam session whenever I want, yet keep doing the stuff I know with my buds. It's slowly paying off...and I would say that I'm at a 50-50 point between standard and open D...leaning towards standard. I'm starting to combine some of my favorite standard fretted riffs with side stuff and developing a style I really like. I'm still real green (playing for a year and a half) so my playing is still heavily in the developing stages.