Re: Moveable chords
My general rule of thumb is: find alternate chords. There are several fingerings for every chord on the fingerboard; there must be one or two that are easier to play.
I'm not sure what you mean by "I just started at the top of this webpage. Shape 1 and 2," so I'm giving general advice. I hope it helps. For A, I use 2245 more than any other pattern. Also, there's 6779. If you are OK with open strings, there are 2200 and 6200.
Also, a lot of times you can get by with double-stops - chord fragments containing just two notes. There are a couple of them that I find are very useful: eight half-tone and five half-tone. That's up a string and up a fret, and up a string and down two frets. You'll see both of these in the G chop chord 7523. These are actually inversions of the major third and fifth intervals, with the root played as the higher tone.
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