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Heh . . . I think that’s where I first “learned” that version of the G chord as well. It’s become my default, both because of the ease of switching to a C9 with minimal hand/finger movement, as well as because if the guitar isn’t perfectly in tune you don’t notice it as much without the 3rd of the chord in the upper register.
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I think that’s where I first learned it, too. I had a girlfriend in college who did singer-songwriter type stuff, and one of the covers she played was “Closer to Fine,” which had that version of the G to the Cadd9 (nitpick: it’s not a C9; it’s either Cadd9 or Cadd2. C9 implies the seventh). Also, the Smashing Pumpkins used the four-fretted G with the Cadd9 a bit, too (I particularly remember the chorus of “Tonight, Tonight,” as well as the main progression for “Disarm.” That whole Em7, Cadd9, and four-fretted G fits nicely under the fingers.)