Aww...I haven't been able to lock myself in to one tuning, although I'd like to, just for convenience sake.
See, it's the third string that kills me. My favorite
slide tuning is in Open "D", and the third string is tuned to F#, which provides the 3rd in the D major chord triad. It makes for that really fat slide sound, and the licks just sort of fall into place with no effort at all. However, it does sort of 'lock you in' in terms of playing flexability.
The solution would seem to be dropped D, but I have problems with that as well. I find myself reaching down and grabbing the third string, which is tuned to G in standard or dropped D, and the dissounance is really grim. The other problem I have in dropped D, is that I forget I'm IN dropped D, and I continually try to play open A and E chords, or reach up to the third fret and give the "E" a wiggle--only it's not G, it's F....just messes me up.
I dunno what I'm gonna do... :roll: