I had a couple on there and input the music/song so far behind in the mix (just so people can figure out where they are in the song) that I don't ever think it would be useful for anybody to use.
I'm thinking radical here. Like, hey, the main thing is my playing, not the cover material. So just as easily as it is to play to a CD I paid for with my hard earned money, I can just as easily mute the cover song, leaving my drumming part left to be viewed and listened to. Then YouTube wouldn't have a reason to delete my account.
But my question is:
(a) digital content is digital content, and whether you're listening to a CD, an mp3 file, or a YouTube video, the playback rate is exactly, EXACTLY, the same!
(b) so the question becomes... can someone write a widget that will sync someone's drumming effort to any content type, including another YouTube video? I ask this because, as most of us know, it is very easy to play two YouTube videos simultaneously by just opening two tabs in Firefox (or similar browser) and clicking play. And so, if copyrighted content is already on YouTube, then you aren't violating any laws by aligning the sound waves of that content with sound waves of your own content.
(c) separating the playing effort from the cover material would help ease those using the content to learn their musical craft
(d) this would be a widget that would take two URLs and align the playback; it would have to utilize a buffer to store the content temporarily while it analyzed it; it would use, possibly, the same analysis algorithm that YouTube uses to analyze content;
And yes, this is absurd when the very of beauty of YouTube has always been as a great promotion and learning tool. Perhaps I should just acknowledge my infringement and hope they like my "promotion of their cover song" so much that they'll realize I'm an asset, not an ass (oops!!!).
Later,
Steph