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Google Guitar Doodle Song Gallery

Posted by samzenpus on from the we-are-the-music-makers dept.

itwbennett writes "Now in its second day of productivity destruction, Google's Guitar Doodle is still making music, beautiful music. Here's a roundup of some of YouTube's best, from beginner favorite Seven Nation Army to an ambitious version of Paint it Black, and, yes, Stairway to Heaven."

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  1. inb4... by itchythebear · · Score: 2

    freebird!!!!

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  2. Freeeeee Birrrrrrd!!! by chemicaldave · · Score: 3, Funny

    Play Freebird!

  3. Wow, 3.5 MB for a page by A+Friendly+Troll · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Size of main page:
    111.421 bytes

    Number of inline elements:
    172 (3.563.734 bytes)

    That's with ad blocking turned on.

    Without it, the page is over 4 megabytes.

    Jesus...

  4. No mention of Les Paul? by jd2112 · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Google Doodle was in honor of Les Paul, who would have been 96 yesterday. For the handfull of slashdotters who don't know Les Paul was one of the inventors of the solid body electric guitar, multitrack recording, and many other inventions still used in the recording industry. And if that weren't enough he was an excellent musician as well.

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    1. Re:No mention of Les Paul? by gnapster · · Score: 3, Informative

      Here is a comic strip commemorating his passing (nearly two years ago).

    2. Re:No mention of Les Paul? by gknoy · · Score: 3, Informative

      For those seeing the [questionablecontent.net] annotation and wondering if the strip is worksafe, it is. That particular one is. (I'm pretty sure most of the ones in the archive would be also, but you might be careful all the same. This one's safe, though.)

      If you'd rather not read the comic, one could always read Les Paul's wikipedia article ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Paul ), but QC mentions some of his really notable accomplishments. A brief (and likely too-shallow) overview would be to say that he was a pioneer of the solid body guitar (the Gibson Les Paul closely followed the Fender Telecaster), and that he invented multitrack recording (along with also pioneering several other techniques). He laid the technological basis for nearly all of our recent music.

      Even though I'm not a music nerd, I think the guy was pretty amazing.

    3. Re:No mention of Les Paul? by Naurgrim · · Score: 3, Informative

      And if that weren't enough he was an excellent musician as well.

      I consider myself fortunate to have seen him play live, must have been about 1986. He was one of the finest guitarists ever, IMHO.

      Before seeing him live, I had heard many of his recordings. Knowing that he like to use tape effects, etc. I thought that some of his fast riffs were done with double speed tape, as they sounded super-humanly fast. I was amazed to find that he actually could play that fast, live, without error.

      The only other guitarist I have seen play live at that level is Robert Fripp, but that's a story for another day - King Crimson, Discipline tour, 1982.

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  5. Re:Really Google? by Joe+Jay+Bee · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes they should be horrified that the impractical toy guitar that was designed to fit inside their logo is impossible to play complex songs on.

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  6. Ought to be great fun... by Black+Parrot · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...until the RIAA lawyers show up with the take-down notices.

    Heaven forbid if someone should do "Happy Birthday"[*] - a SWAT team might show up instead.

    [*] Can I use those words on Slashdot without getting fined?

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  7. My Submission by Jonathan+Perkin · · Score: 4, Funny

    http://goo.gl/doodle/peUg5

    1. Re:My Submission by Smurf · · Score: 2

      If you have problems getting the keyboard to strum, you may need to turn off Google Instant in your search settings. Then, click somewhere out of the text box, and go nuts with the keyboard.

  8. Forward to the past III by Chemtox · · Score: 2

    Until someone comes out with an ASIO driver for Firefox, I'm sticking to Guitar Queero.

  9. If that's the best... by DerekLyons · · Score: 2

    If that's "some of the best", I'd hate to hear any of the worst. Most of the songs were virtually unrecognizable..

  10. The doodle now has a permanent home by audunn · · Score: 2

    Google have given it a permanent home here http://www.google.com/logos/2011/lespaul.html

  11. Re:Now I feel like sheepish by serbanp · · Score: 2

    oooh! [what one says in this situation? yes!] It's very good, yeah, the talent is there but you just need a little practice, that's all! :P

  12. Re:The doodle doesn't show up for me anymore.. by maxwell+demon · · Score: 2

    Do you possibly have a browser setting or extension enabled which forces the browser always to use the secure (encrypted) version of a web site if available?
    If so, you probably have to disable that to see the traditional Google page.

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