“Sliding Down” was written by bassist/pianist Edgar Meyer and appears on his Uncommon Ritual recording, which features Mike Marshall on mandolin and Béla Fleck on banjo. It’s a simple melody in the key of A and in 3/4 time, but the challenge is how to flesh out the melody with chord tones. It works well on the octave mandolin with a capo on the second fret, using key of G fingerings. Joe shows you how to play the melody and fill it out with one or two notes of the underlying chord. In this video, he shows you the basic melody.
