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   If you are wondering what inkblots have to do with guitar and the answer is nothing (really), I have been playing around with 'inkblot chords' which shows symetrical links between some chords...

   For inkblot chord we simply build a chord going >>> forward (Using a single string) and then mentally flipping the chord, The root (or starting) tone is the center so if you were looking at the 'inkblot' then the >>>right side of the page would be the original and the <<<left side would be the result...

start  C (4 hops >>>) E (3 hops <<<) G  end...

end... F (3 hops <<<) G# (4 hops <<<) C start

   Its hard to analyze a string of tones and try to figure out what it really is, By plugging in the tones (F G# C) into our 'octaves worksheet' we get the real chord...

F minor...

   So "F minor" has a symetrical link to "C major" and using the same process on the other chords show that a minor chord is the result, The major chords have the following weird relatives...

chord  => inkblot
C major => F minor
F major => Bb minor
G major => C minor

   The minor chords have a different chord building pattern so the inkblot will be different than the major chords, Remember this is not some scientific thing but just some of the weird stuff I do...

Starting chord >>> A C E  (A minor)

D F# A (D major) <<< Inkblot Chord

   This shows that "D major" has a symetrical link to the "A minor" chord and the best results are to use extended chords, Since our worksheet is short you would have to figure out the formula going forward and then build it back on another string...

F# A C# E (F# minor 7th) <<<

>>> E G B D (E minor 7th)

   This shows a symetrical / mathematical connection between the "E minor 7th" and the F# minor 7th" (no big surprise there), Let's try the E minor 9th...

D# A C# E (A major 11th)...

E G B F (E minor 9th)...

   The inkblot chords always seem to match up to some other basic chord making weird chord combinations, I don't want to spend alot of time manually making the inkblot charts but looking at just one key can help if you really want to know...

chord  => inkblot
C major => F minor
D minor => G major
E minor => A major
F major => Bb minor
G major => C minor
A minor => D major
B dim. => F dim.

   If you look at the inkblot chords then you get some weeerd results, The major chords are from the "Key of D", The minor chords are from the "Key of Ab" and the diminished chord is in the "Key of E"...