This Map Reveals How To Make Your Guitar Chords Less Boring. In this lesson I delve into a simple map to make your open guitar chords more interesting. This is what I call the TEMPLE OF DOOM CHORD MAP. It’ll change the way you play the chords in C Major open chords forever.

The notes in the scale pattern map out the safe spots to add to the chords of C Major. This is done by adding fingers or by ringing open strings.

You can see how the chord shapes can borrow notes from each other. This is super useful for song writing, smoothing out chord transitions and aides voice leading and creating guitar chords that sound good together.