Here is the audio sample. Fun times!  

I have a part of the melody stuck in my head wrong and keep playing that certain part wrong (though I get it right once I think).  If you know the song, maybe you'll notice!

https://www.hangoutstorage.com/banjohangout.org/storage/audio/15/lucy-farrs-158818-58444932026.mp3

I'm trying to post the song so it's just an embedded player inside my post.  Maybe I can't do that.  So far I've posted the url link and the attachment, so I'm 0/2.  

My 5 year old grandson always wants to play Guitar with me when he comes to visit. I have a baritone ukulele which are normally tuned DGBE, like a guitar. I just tuned the E string to D and he has an open G, just like my banjo without the drone string. He just mimics what I'm doing on the banjo. I'll have him jamming before you know it.

My experience is a bit backwards to your topic. l fingerpicked guitar before I started clawhammer banjo. Like you say, the G tuned guitar has some overlap with banjo, so somewhere along the line, I started fingerpicking guitar in open G. After a few years, I began to realize that all my tunes sounded very similar, so I quit, except...

I found that some tunes are great with Travis style picking in open G on the banjo. The percussiveness of the banjo gives them a bigger pop. I play Pallet on your floor and Waiting for the sunrise this way.  In the video, I play a slow clawhamer with brush strokes, then Travis style, then fast claw.

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Originally posted by BG Banjo

My 5 year old grandson always wants to play Guitar with me when he comes to visit. I have a baritone ukulele which are normally tuned DGBE, like a guitar. I just tuned the E string to D and he has an open G, just like my banjo without the drone string. He just mimics what I'm doing on the banjo. I'll have him jamming before you know it.

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Nice!  if the D was a d (re-entrant), maybe it could even be used for clawhammer!

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Originally posted by Lew H

My experience is a bit backwards to your topic. l fingerpicked guitar before I started clawhammer banjo. Like you say, the G tuned guitar has some overlap with banjo, so somewhere along the line, I started fingerpicking guitar in open G. After a few years, I began to realize that all my tunes sounded very similar, so I quit, except...

I found that some tunes are great with Travis style picking in open G on the banjo. The percussiveness of the banjo gives them a bigger pop. I play Pallet on your floor and Waiting for the sunrise this way.  In the video, I play a slow clawhamer with brush strokes, then Travis style, then fast claw.

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Since your reply, I have started fingerpicking open G songs a bit on the guitar. Very fun.  They didn't all sound the same to me yet, so maybe I need to keep playing.  I will say I do have some experience fingerpicking songs in a travis-picking syncopated style with a guitar in standard tuning.  Most out of the C position.  My family has noted that they all sound the same, and I can't aruge with them, sometimes I will acidentally switch between two or three songs without even realizing it!

Thanks for the video!  I like it all. 

I think Molly Tuttle uses open G for a lot of her clawhammer guitar tunes.