Guitar woes

Last night I gave up with the internet freebies and paid for a guitar chord download. You know what’s frustrating me? How many different ways there are to play each chord. I know that is supposed to be an advantage, but at this point in my guitar “career”, I would just like to know one way to do it. I don’t need options.

And I thought I would like to play “Here is Love”, which we have sung recently in church, after the fashion of the Matt Redman version (you know the old hymn, “Here is love, vast as the ocean …”), but I discovered that it has no less than seven different split chords. Horrible. I know better than to ask the internet questions, because rarely are they answered, but my flatmate comes by and tells me I don’t have to play split chords, I can just choose one or the other. Might this be true? I dare not believe it. Otherwise I fail to see why the chord charts given would actually have a different fingering for the split chords. I think my prior guitar teacher would be outraged.

So I am stuck trying to work out what the heck Gma7/B is (because, strangely, that chord diagram is blank), and I have to get from G to D/F# and back to G quickly, which is a finger-tying mess. Then one version gives me C2, which I have discovered is also Cadd9 (I know Cadd9) and one version gives me C/D (is this the same thing?) and even just trying to work out what the right chord actually is is a headache (thus why I thought I'd buy the real thing).

Here is the youtube of what I am trying to play anyway, except we don't go on quite like this at the end in church, and sing a third verse ... (watch the visual if you want to see such things as bible verses superimposed over a statue of Abraham Lincoln).