The well-known slide “The Star Above the Garter” is good to know for playing in seisiúns. The melody has a lot of triplet phrases that you’ll need to modify slightly to be able to play it with a slide feel on the mandolin. Marla plays it as a slide and then shows you the melody as it might be written, with more jig-style triplets, and how she takes the middle notes out of the triplet phrases to be able to bring it up to slide tempo with the right rhythmic feel. Once you’ve learned the stripped down melody, Marla shows you how you might add some triplets back in, to enhance the tune while preserving the feel of the slide.
