Google Doodle has outdone itself with today’s logo: An interactive electric guitar you can record songs on in honor of Les Paul’s 96th birthday.
The doodle allows you to strum the chords with your mouse, and has made offices everywhere sound like the backstage of an amateur hour.
For some, there’s a keyboard button that you can click to make the letters of the keyboard different notes on a scale.
There’s also a button that lets budding Internet musicians record up to 30 seconds of their masterpieces, and a url is provided afterward so the tune can be shared.
Youtube is already filled with Google Doodle recordings of different classic rock songs, including Led Zeppelin hit “Stairway to Heaven” (see video below).
Paul, born Lester William Polfus, is considered to be the father of electric guitar. He first attempted to amplify the audio on his acoustic guitar at age 13 and tried to place a telephone receiver under the strings.
He figured out that placing a phonograph needle in the guitar would amplify all six strings, and had a working prototype of the electric guitar by 1929.
In 1952 Gibson Guitars began making Le Paul guitars.
He also helped bring about rise of rock ‘n’ roll by using multitrack recording, which allows artists to record different instruments at different times, sing harmony with themselves and put everything together to make a finished recording.
Paul was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2005. He died in 2009 of complications from pneumonia.
Google Doodles changes the Google logo in order to celebrate different holidays, anniversaries and famous peoples’ birthday. The first Google Doodle was made in 1998 to celebrate the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert.
Since then over 300 doodles for Google.com in the United States have been designed and over 700 made internationally.
The doodle allows you to strum the chords with your mouse, and has made offices everywhere sound like the backstage of an amateur hour.
For some, there’s a keyboard button that you can click to make the letters of the keyboard different notes on a scale.
There’s also a button that lets budding Internet musicians record up to 30 seconds of their masterpieces, and a url is provided afterward so the tune can be shared.
Youtube is already filled with Google Doodle recordings of different classic rock songs, including Led Zeppelin hit “Stairway to Heaven” (see video below).
Paul, born Lester William Polfus, is considered to be the father of electric guitar. He first attempted to amplify the audio on his acoustic guitar at age 13 and tried to place a telephone receiver under the strings.
He figured out that placing a phonograph needle in the guitar would amplify all six strings, and had a working prototype of the electric guitar by 1929.
In 1952 Gibson Guitars began making Le Paul guitars.
He also helped bring about rise of rock ‘n’ roll by using multitrack recording, which allows artists to record different instruments at different times, sing harmony with themselves and put everything together to make a finished recording.
Google Doodles changes the Google logo in order to celebrate different holidays, anniversaries and famous peoples’ birthday. The first Google Doodle was made in 1998 to celebrate the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert.
Since then over 300 doodles for Google.com in the United States have been designed and over 700 made internationally.