Sweet Baby James (acoustic) and Sweet Jane (electric) are both approachable and have lots of barre chord changes. Moderate tempos and a limited number of chords have made them good practice songs for me.
If you have any suggestions of similar difficulty songs I’d be interested. My neighbors might appreciate a little variety.
Sometimes I’ll play any 'ol song that I know that I normally play open chords on. Instead of open chords, I’ll play them as barres somewhere else on the fretboard. Typically I’ll use barres of A (G), E and D (C) + the minors, 7’s, minor 7’s, or any other variation of a major chord, but do them as barre. I also use this idea to see if I can find the triads or double stops that may work too as it seems ya can find the triad and diade within the open chords. Ya just move them around and play the specific notes of the chord. They can also be inversions.
Don’t know if that’s what I should do or how, but it’s how I think of it. For sure I seem to come up with variations of the open chord thinking of it this way.
ymmv
For sure, that is actually a really smart idea. Thats one way I practice my barrs I just go back to a lot of my level one and two songs and just started playing them all with Barr chords and its gives them a totally different feel. I like to switch them up too. Justin mentikns this at the end of a lot of his beginner videos too.
As a matter of fact, go watch live videos of the performers playing the music you can see a lot of them do this as a technique for changing the tonal sound. I can not be 100% sure that is why but my best guess is it is a really good way to give it that burst of energy in certain verses or the chorus of a song. That way the audence can feel that killer powerful feeling when the performer wants them to know they are getting hit hard.
The other side tho for me at least, is on my acoustic. When playing far up the neck up the neck I do lose that long sustain. But that dont matter if im playing fast and hard punk haha.
Try Melissa by the Allman Brothers. There are a variety of tabs and lessons out there, and I play one that has 7 different barre chords plus a few open ones, and it’s slow paced and not hard to strum. And because it is slow, you’ll hear when you * mash, squeal or fluff the barre chords up the neck.
F#m, G#m, Bm, C#m, A, C (or Cmaj7 if you can manage that) and B
*mash, squeal or fluff These are all formal guitar terms, as I learned them all from Justin Sandercoe.
Oooh. Where’s my “mind blown” emoji? Of course! Thank you for articulating this. I was stuck on a part of transcription thinking “I think this is more than one note” then feeling lost. You just gave me great idea to go back to it with!
Exploding_Head after the emoji colon.
Thanks, I like that song but I’ve only every really “heard” the lead electric. It’s on the list.
That was actually part of my “does not translate well to typed words” humor. And I appreciate your willingness to help! 
There are a couple versions of the Beatles’ When I’m When I’m Sixty-Four, 1st fret capo, that have a combination of barre and open chords. For practice, try playing most of the chords in barre positions. It’s different from the song in your memory, but good for making a bunch of barre chord changes. Source: Ultimate Guitar
Very timely, I’m turning 64 shortly. Too shortly.
I’m 67 in a couple months. So far l don’t need anyone to feed me yet… 