Drag your cursor sideways across the strings instead of clicking them one at a time. That’s the whole difference between it sounding like a guitar and sounding like someone poking a guitar.
What you’re holding
Eighteen notes across six strings, tuned the normal way, low to high. The number row plays the open strings, the letter row underneath gives you the fretted ones. Nothing is quantised, so timing is entirely your problem.
Three tone settings. Clean is dry and short. Warm rolls the top end off and lets notes ring longer. Bright is the one that cuts through if you’re playing over something else, and it’s slightly harsh on cheap laptop speakers. Fair warning.
Recording a take
Press record, play whatever, press it again to stop. It plays back at exactly the speed you performed it, including the gaps where you were thinking. There’s no metronome and no undo on individual notes, which is either a limitation or the reason takes are fun. Wipe and go again.
The recording lives in the page. Refresh and it’s gone, so if you land on something good, capture it with your phone.
People cannot spell this
Roughly half the traffic that reaches a google guitar page got there by typing gitar, giutar, or gutair. The search engine sorts it out. It’s one of those words where the letters are in the wrong order in everyone’s head.
Where this one came from
It started as a doodle marking Les Paul’s birthday and it broke productivity across several countries for about two days. People recorded whole tracks on it. The version here keeps the strumming and the recorder and drops the rest.
If you want more noise
Not much else on the list makes sound. Google snake and google block breaker are the other two doodle-descended things worth sitting with. For something visual instead, google matrix pairs well with anything you play here, and google underwater is oddly calming.
Everything else is catalogued under google easter eggs.
