I'm learning blues guitar from a book, and after going through chord progressions (I-IV-V, etc.) and making me play the rhythm with the whole chord, the book introduces what it calls "spread rhythm" whereby only two of the strings of the chords are played.
As well as only using two of the chords, this also introduces a variation: each bar uses two different chords, a 5th and a 6th chord. The first bar looks like this:
------------------- ------------------- ------------------- ------------------- -7-7-9-7--7-7-9-7-- -5-5-5-5--5-5-5-5--
The notes with the "7-5" are A5 and the notes with "9-5" are A6.
I hurt my little finger at some point in the past, and while it's mostly recovered I'm finding that "9-5", the A6, to be more than it can currently take - it feels painful.
I know that with time and practice I will get there eventually, but as I want to give more time for my little finger to rest I was looking for an alternative to that 6th chord.
I have seen people doing similar rhythms with open chords, but I'm interested in a moveable version. Also I realise I could stick to the 5th chord, but it doesn't nearly as interesting.
So: Are there any other similar, moveable patterns that don't require the finger stretch?