Doodle team lead ryan germick presented the perfect opportunity, a tribute to les paul. Google has created a playalong doodle to mark the anniversary of electric guitar inventor les pauls birth. The special doodle is in honor of what would have been pauls 96th birthday. We looked at the data, talked to luminaries, and listened to customers across the world. Google displayed an interactive electric guitar doodle starting june 9, 2011, to celebrate the 96th birthday of les paul. Edited because i uploaded the site with the recording version as well. Google doodle lets you play a recordable guitar ditty in. Jun 09, 2011 edited because i uploaded the site with the recording version as well. Apart from being able to hover the cursor over the doodle to strum the strings just like one of les pauls gibson guitars, there was also a keyboard button, which when enabled allowed interaction with the doodle via the. Finally, im gonna use it to compose some decent tones after two days of work. In celebration of what would be les pauls 96th birthday. If youre not already addicted to the les paul doodle, which has become tremendously popular, you can learn how to play it with our exclusive lessons. Jun 12, 2011 the ubiquitous search engine launched a dedicated page for its interactive les paul doodle on thursday, which would have been paul s 96 th birthday had he lived as long. What does the future of cloud computing hold and what does this mean for businesses.
Google celebrate les pauls birthday and they made a very interactive guitar application that can be played using your mouse and keyboard. Inspired by slash, built by gibson, and now, played by you. Google honored the late les paul on his 96th birthday today with what our colleagues at the. Paying tribute to our iconic past, the original collection brings back the classic guitars that shaped sound across all generations and genres of music. The interactive doodle honors the electric guitar maestro allowing people to strum guitar in their home page doodle. Doodleledo is a lively country instrumental jig performed by harry raby and the 3d valley boys.
Google has given its guitar doodle a permanent home. Do it, youve got less than 24 hours to check out its guitarinspired doodle celebrating the birthday of les paul. Les paul who died two years ago would be pround and. Google guitar heroes help keep les paul doodle alive. Im not entirely sure it beats pacman can anything ever beat pacman.
Google honors the amarikan guitarelegend les paul with an amazing doodle. The ubiquitous search engine launched a dedicated page for its interactive les paul doodle on thursday, which would have been pauls 96 th birthday had he lived as long. Jun 09, 2011 today, the california company offers an animated doodle you can strum and share a gift of music entirely befitting a birthday celebration for the legendary guitarist and inventor les paul. The homepage logo, posted thursday in honor of the late guitarist les paul s 96th birthday, features a sixstring guitar that can be strummed with a mouse or a fingertip, for those on laptops. Chances are many hours of productivity at offices around the world ha. In celebration of what would be les paul s 96th birthday. Google les paul doodle download recording version a little more reverse engineering and cleaning in the code. Les paul was an accomplished guitarist, but his technical innovations made modern music possible. Today, were attempting to recreate that experience with a doodle celebrating the birthday of musician and inventor les paul. How do i play it while gliding the mouse across the strings will produce. To play les paul doodle directly from your pc follow the instructions at my site.
Go to and you have a working electric guitar, waiting to be strummed using your computers keyboard and mouse. Google doodles have been around since 1998, and the operation has grown. Car careers off the road flips over and lands upside down. Tribute to the musician and electricguitar innovator proves popular with web guitarists, yielding nearly 4,000 youtube videos of their musical efforts. To make the doodle available for you always, we have made it avaiable at for you. First off, some of the notes do not correspond, but the tune sounds good anyway, i did it just for fun. I built a functional prototype in javascript and html5, sampling my own les paul guitar in my home studio. The golden era returns with the original collection. These models represent electric and acoustic guitars slash has played before millions of fans during his career and influenced multiple generations of players around the world. I found out a way to save and play todays doodle dedicated to les paul. But that doesnt mean the fun has to end once it comes down. Les paul 19152009, for those unfamiliar, was a jazzblues musician and inventor of. Les paul s 96th birthday the electric guitar brings back memories for me of exchanging riffs with friends and wearing out cassette tapes as i meticulously learned songs.
Have you got one custom studio to give me as a present. Google is celebrating the 96th birthday of les paul the legendary american jazz guitarist and the person to whom the famous epiphone lespaul electric guitar is credited. Les pauls 96th birthday the electric guitar brings back memories for me of exchanging riffs with friends and wearing out cassette tapes as i meticulously learned songs. This les paul playable doodle gave me an hour or so of fun. Gibson and slash are proud to present the new slash collection of signature guitars. The homepage logo, posted thursday in honor of the late guitarist les pauls 96th birthday, features a sixstring guitar that can be strummed with a mouse or a fingertip, for those on laptops. Ryan and i collaborated closely on various designs and string configurations. You can make your own guitare music with this interactive doodle. Please practice handwashing and social distancing, and check out our resources for adapting to these times.
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