The frets work
Click a string near the nut and you get the open note. Click it further along and you get whatever fret you landed on, up to five. So you can pick out a line properly rather than only strumming, and the fretboard markers are where you would expect them.
Drag across the strings at any height and it strums at that fret, which is a fast way to find chords by accident.
Six strings, standard tuning
Low E to high E, no capo. A S D F G H plays the open strings from the keyboard. If you play guitar, everything you know transfers. If you do not, dragging slowly downward still sounds like music, which is why the doodle ate a whole working day when it launched.
Recording
Hit record, play something, hit it again, then play back. It keeps your timing exactly, including the hesitations, which is either useful or unkind depending on how well it went.
June 2011
It went up for the 96th birthday of the man behind the solid-body electric guitar and stayed an extra day because nobody would put it down. Guitar being a word people cannot spell, it also gets searched as google gitar, google gutar, google guiter, google gultar, google giutar and google gutair, all landing in the same place.
The other doodle still standing is the maze at google pac-man. For something with no sound at all, google matrix.
