i just figured this out.

Tune your A string down to a G. Tune your high E string down to a D. Don't play the low E. Now you've just tuned your guitar like a five string banjo. Except your 5th string is a low G not a high G. But it kind of works anyway.

you are also on the path to tuning to D Standard haha

I'll have to try this later, never thought of mixing up the two

if you tune your low E down to D, thats the tuning Son House used.. I think

thats the drop d. very popular

I mean what you said, plus dropping the D

If you tune E B G D G its what banjo players call=Open-G variant. A "guitar tuning". The standard banjo tuning is D B G D G..Open G for banjo.

If you tune your guitar to ebgade its like a guitar! 0.0

im sorry, thats acctually pretty cool, no wonder my guitar licks didnt sound the same on the school banjo

I think you mean ebgdae unless there is something I didn't catch????