Chords for Lego Microtonal Guitar

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[G] Everything [A] started two [G] years ago when my seven-year-old son Atlas made the LEGO version of my adjustable microtonal guitar [D] fretboard [E] at home. _
[D] _ He [C] asked _ [E] _ _
_ [Dm] _ [Am] _ [D] me, [E] why don't you use this on your [D] guitar?
Then we checked all LEGO guitars [G] on YouTube.
What [D] we noticed was interesting.
[C] All playable LEGO guitars [E] fretboards that are made up to now [D] are not made of LEGO.
No one had an issue about [G] the fretboard.
They [C] are standard guitar fretboards made of wood.
Then I was lucky [D] to find the right person for this project.
Ruhsen Can [Am] Acet is our sound [C] engineering PhD student at Istanbul Technical [Gm] University [F] and thanks to him we [Dm] realized this project.
[A] First we designed and 3D printed [D] a LEGO fretboard base plate with many bumps [G] that LEGO [Bb] pieces can be inserted [G] into.
We measured the locations [D] of the standard guitar frets [F] and put some [D] bumps for microtones in between these frets.
After we glued this fretboard onto [G] the guitar, [D] the fun part begins.
With Atlas we found [G] various LEGO pieces [D] to fill in the spaces.
We also noticed something unexpected.
[Bb] We spent hours to find [Dm] single square plates from our LEGO collection and found out that these pieces are the most precious LEGO pieces in our collection.
_ After inserting all [D] the LEGOs into our fretboard, [Bb] it was time for the individual [Am] frets.
[D] We 3D printed two types, round and square, and complete our LEGO microtonal guitar by attaching them onto the [Dm] fretboard.
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_ [Dm] _ By the way, we did all 3D printing and discussed some ideas at Öğrenenler workshop with Selçuk Keser.
I would like to thank him a lot.
In the end, [D] Atlas likes the final product.
He has been learning classical guitar [C] for two months, [D] so he accepted to try some examples [E] on it.
I showed him to play a popular Turkish folk music by Ayşegül Veysel, first without a [Em] microtone. _ _
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Then [G] I showed the microtones [E] location that's used on bağlama for playing the piece, and Atlas managed to play the original tune with the right microtone.
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_ [Am] _ _ _ [D] [G] Then I [D] started to teach him the scales and realized that this design can be used to teach music theory on the guitar fretboard [Gm] easily.
[Dm] I took off all the frets and just attached 5 frets for a C major [Bb] scale.
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[Dm] _ [G] _ _ [A] _ _ [Gm] _ [Db] Then I showed Atlas how we can achieve a minor scale by changing 3 frets locations.
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[Eb] _ _ _ [C] _ [F] _ [D] Finally, I showed him a Balinese pentatonic scale with 3 microtones. _ _
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_ _ _ [Em] _ [F] also enjoy playing some tunes on [Am] this guitar.
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[B] _ [G] _ [B] _ [Eb] I played the Balinese tune [G] composed by my friend [F] Chris Charles. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ [E] Finally, I played a tune from Cyprus with some microtones.
[D] I hope this design will be used for teaching the music of different cultures and also used for the standard [G] guitar [D] education.
Thanks for watching.
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