Mandolin help needed.

[Pickers Ditch]

So I've put a new set of strings on my old Harmony flat back mandolin, tuned it to normal mandolin tuning and had a go at trying to learn a simplified version of this:



I'm struggling (nothing unusual there) but I just can't find some of them notes and chords that Mr. Cooder is playing.

Is he using normal mandolin tuning or has he got a demon trick going on?

All help gratefully received.

Thanks, PD.

[ukulelezaza]

Seems like standard mandolin tuning to me, playing in the key of G.