Updated 22.5.12 Google has accustomed us to show, on its main search page, new logos every week that remain available for exactly 24 hours.
The one yesterday (June 9, 2011), the Google Doodle dedicated to Les Paul, inventor of the electric guitar, has had a resounding success so much that many people around the world, in Italy and in the United States have spent the whole day playing the guitar online, from the Google page, interactively .
With yesterday's launch of the doodle to honor the pioneer musician of the electric guitar Les Paul, Google has created the world's largest music session by giving everyone the opportunity to play with the mouse or keyboard.
Not everyone knows that, in the USA, the Google Doodle for Les Paul was also recordable and the song played could be shared.
Let's see how to continue playing the Google electric guitar (even for those who missed it), what are the keys to press and how to record the pieces played.
The guitar Google Doodle, which will go down in history as the most successful Google logo among the best Google logos (beating that of PacMan), is still available to be seen and played on the page dedicated to the Les Paul logo, which will never disappear again and will always remain online.
Anyone who cannot see the interactive Google logo or if it does not ring the mouse and does not come alive, means that you are browsing with a browser not updated to the new web standards.
As the Google blog writes, the doodle was made with a combination of JavaScript, HTML5 Canvas (used to draw guitar strings), CSS, Flash (for sound) and freely available tools such as Google Font API, goo.gl and the App Engine.
I will update the article if download links for this magnificent Google virtual guitar will be available so that I can download it to my computer as a program and play it offline.
The Les Paul Doodle can be played with the mouse, hovering the cursor like plucking the strings with your finger and playing chords.
You can also play with the keyboard, by pressing the key located at the bottom, near the second Google g.
Each key plays a different string and precisely:
Using only numbers (the numeric keypad does not work), the main chords are:
C Major = 1, 3, 5, 8
F Major = 4, 6, 8
G Major = 5, 7, 9
You can also use the letters, from Q to P is like pressing from 1 to 0, all the notes from the lowest to the highest.
Those who understand music and notes, can associate the notes with the keys (give me confirmation):
1 = sol, 2 = la, 3 = si, 4 = do, 5 = re, 6 = mi, 7 = fa, 8 = sol, 9 = la, 10 = si.
For example, to play The Hymn to Joy (Beethoven's ninth symphony), the keys to be pressed are: 3345-5432-1123-3-226 6-78-8765-4456-6-55 second verse: 2231-23431 -23, 432, 121.
To record musical compositions and publish your video on YouTube, it is advisable to have a program such as Camtasia, to record the desktop in a video.
The best videos for listening to the creations and seeing how some famous songs were played using the electric guitar of the Les Paul Google Doodle, are obviously on Youtube.
For example we have: Lady Gaga Paparazzi, Stairway To Heaven, Happy Birthday, Oh, when the saints, go marching
Below, the video with the instructions to play the Google electric guitar
Google must be acknowledged that, for a day, the evil stopped and the world stopped to play, forgetting problems and anxieties.
If you want to try other web applications to make music on the guitar from your computer, with the keyboard only, as written in the post on the sites to tune the guitar, you can play in a similar way to the Google Doodle on some online guitar sites.
Similar to the guitar is the Google Doodle dedicated to Robert Moogle of 23 May 2012 with a musical synthesizer to be played online with keyboard and electronic knobs .
To find other musical instruments online, I recommend looking at the musical keyboard with virtual piano and the electric drums online.
I close by remembering the interactive videos to play from Youtube, among which there is also the electric guitar.
