If you’ve been struggling with the A Shape Barre Chord - Major and have a hard time with it, you’ll be glad to know that this A Shape Barre Chord - Minor is as easy as pie. 
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If you play it straight major it is relatively easy to learn. How do you deal with maj7 and dom7? Any tricks for that? 
Dominant 7: https://www.justinguitar.com/guitar-lessons/a-shape-barre-chords-dominant-7ths-ash-003
Maj7 - lesson pending.
Another good song for this exercise is “Lightning Crashes” by Live. I like how it is a relatively easy chord progression, but it gets your hands moving around in different shapes 
But it doesn’t have any minor chords in it and this is a A shaped Barre Chord “Minor” Lesson
The chords in Lightning Crashes are all Major
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Yep, ha, for sure. I was thinking that the 3rd chord in the progression was an A shaped minor, but it’s definitely not. I just played it as a minor and it sounds…not good.
You’re right My memory isn’t as good as it used to be. I was running the song through my head and thought I think the Bridge uses minor Barre chords so I went and checked and it does.
So my bad you where right.
Great song haven’t played in for a long time.
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What about playing the Am chord with fingers 2, 3 and 4? Then it would be easier to change from Am to Bm. Or are there disadvantages to it?
why do you call it an A shape if it’s an E shape?
Not sure what is confusing you as it is the Am shape refingered with a barre and muted 6th string.
Can you clarify further.
Michael
PS welcome to the community
Yes the Am shape looks like an E shape, the Am shape’s root note is on the A string and the E shape the root is on the E string. Also the Am shape comes from flattening the 3rd of the A shape making it an A shape minor barre chord
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