


You can include the short string on the bottom left, too, for a bit of a fuller sound. By passing your cursor over the three longest strings, you can play a G-Major chord. If you'd rather play with your mouse, Google has rather cleverly laid out the strings so that you can easily strum a few chords, all while adhering to the guitar shape of its iconic logo. (This seems to work only in some browsers.) OooooooooMEooooooooO went a step further by recording the entire screen as he played.

Once you're done recording, Google will give you a URL, which you can send to friends and prove your hard-rocking, key-clicking prowess. Once you get Google guitar recording, type out: The YouTuber also shared the notation, so you too can play along. The original song was written for A minor, while the Google guitar only plays in C major. This Google guitar rendition deftly captures the arpeggio, finger-picked opening of the Led Zeppelin classic. The theme song to every '70s high school prom – and probably a lot of 40-year reunions this year – is now forever captured on YouTube by user OooooooooMEooooooooO. If you record a good session, share it with the world by posting the URL in our comments section. The final page of this story will have some instructions on how you can play your own version. Here are some of the best, in no particular order. YouTube has many excellent recordings from the Google guitar. Plus, if you hit several number (or letter) keys at a time, you'll play a chord. The 1 key plays the lowest note, 0 strums the highest. Once you click the record button, type any number key to pick at a corresponding string. Since strumming with your mouse is a little imprecise, Google also allowed people to play through their keyboards. This interactive Les Paul tribute caught the imagination of armchair guitarists across the country, no doubt derailing office productivity in the process. In a single Google doodle, the search engine somehow captured both of Les Paul's incredible contributions to modern music: The solid-body electric guitar, shown in the look and sound of today's Google logo and multitrack recording, presented, in some degree, through Google's clever record feature.
