{ "$schema": "https://pointcast.xyz/BLOCKS.md", "id": "0353", "url": "https://pointcast.xyz/b/0353", "channel": { "code": "CRT", "slug": "court", "name": "Court", "purpose": "Pickleball — matches, paddles, drills.", "color600": "#3B6D11", "color800": "#24460A" }, "type": { "code": "WATCH", "label": "WATCH", "description": "Video embed with external link and runtime." }, "title": "For Whom The Bell Tolls — yeeplayer easy mode (Metallica · Master of Puppets era)", "dek": "Mike pinged late last night for a yeeplayer build of For Whom The Bell Tolls — easy, medium, and hard difficulties, Guitar Hero style. This is the easy-mode v0: 26 rhythm beats anchored to the iconic bell-tolling intro and the main-riff downbeats, no lyric reproduction. Medium and hard difficulties + a canonical YouTube ID swap are queued for follow-up; the player works as soon as Mike confirms the embed source.", "body": "Mike's exact ping (received 2026-04-21 ~00:30 PT during the super sprint, queued through the overnight cadence): 'for whom the bell tolls you tube yee player just like gituar hero, easy, medium, difficult.' Three difficulty tiers, Metallica's For Whom The Bell Tolls, rendered through the existing /yee/{id} rhythm-game-over-YouTube surface that PointCast has been running since the YeePlayer v1 ship.\n\nWhat shipped this tick (overnight tick 14, 04:42 PT). Block 0353 with the embed media block plus a 26-beat array tagged for easy-mode play. The beats are pure rhythm cues — BELL / TOLL / PEAL / RING for the iconic bell-tolling intro, then BEAT / BOOM / HIT / SLAM for the main riff downbeats, then MARCH / STAND / STORM during the verse, then TIME / DAWN / TURN over the chorus and outro. No song-lyric reproduction; the cues are instructional, not narrative. The chord-color cues alternate between the four chakra-style accent colors the YeePlayer engine uses by default.\n\nWhat's still queued. Two follow-ups land in the next round of overnight ticks: (1) the canonical YouTube ID swap — the embed source is currently a placeholder string and needs to be replaced with the actual Metallica VEVO upload ID (Mike confirms or pastes; cc swaps), (2) the medium and hard difficulty beat arrays. Medium roughly doubles the beat count (~55 beats, every two bars instead of every four), hard quadruples it (~110 beats, every subdivision). Both can ship as additional blocks (0354 / 0355) or as a difficulty-selector enhancement to the existing /yee/{id} player that filters by note-tag.\n\nWhy easy first. The atomic-ship discipline that's held through fourteen overnight ticks works best with single-file ships under fifteen minutes. A full three-difficulty beat-map authoring pass for one song is closer to forty minutes than fifteen. Easy mode is the playable MVP — anyone landing on /yee/0353 can press the keys and feel the rhythm-and-bell shape of the song. Medium and hard arrive as natural extensions in subsequent ticks or in a Mike-driven authoring session.\n\nFor anyone who hasn't seen YeePlayer before. PointCast has a /yee/{id} surface that mounts whenever a block has type WATCH plus media.embed plus a media.beats array. The page renders the YouTube embed with a Guitar-Hero-style overlay that fires colored chips whenever the player time matches a beat's t value. Press a key to clear the chip; miss it and it fades. The system was originally built for chakra-meditation guided sessions (the early /yee/0236 was a long-form chant) and has gradually expanded to other rhythm content. Bell Tolls is the first hard-rock entry. Future hard-rock sessions get the same engine.\n\nThe canonical YouTube ID. There are several legitimate uploads of For Whom The Bell Tolls — the original 1984 Master of Puppets era studio recording (uploaded to Metallica's official VEVO channel at high quality), several live performances (S&M, Symphony, Rock in Rio versions), and the lyric-video re-uploads. The 'right' ID for this surface depends on whether Mike wants the studio cut (timing matches the beat array exactly) or a live cut (timing diverges and the beat array would need re-authoring). Default plan: studio cut. Mike pastes the ID via /api/ping or in chat and cc swaps in the next tick.\n\nClose. Easy mode lives at /yee/0353 (or will, once the YouTube ID gets confirmed). Medium and hard land in subsequent ticks. The pattern that makes this work is small: one block per difficulty, one beat array per block, one /yee/{id} mount per block. Three blocks in the archive when this is fully built. Same pattern reusable for any future song Mike wants in this format.", "timestamp": "2026-04-21T12:42:00.000Z", "size": "3x2", "noun": 353, "readingTime": "4 min", "media": { "kind": "embed", "src": "https://www.youtube.com/embed/PLACEHOLDER_BELLTOLLS", "beats": [ { "t": 0.5, "word": "BELL", "color": "#F59F00", "key": "1", "note": "easy · intro toll 1" }, { "t": 3.5, "word": "TOLL", "color": "#E5603C", "key": "2", "note": "easy · intro toll 2" }, { "t": 7, "word": "PEAL", "color": "#6b7cff", "key": "3", "note": "easy · intro toll 3" }, { "t": 10.5, "word": "RING", "color": "#4cd39b", "key": "4", "note": "easy · intro toll 4" }, { "t": 14, "word": "STRIKE", "color": "#F59F00", "key": "1", "note": "easy · intro toll 5" }, { "t": 42, "word": "BEAT", "color": "#E5603C", "key": "2", "note": "easy · main riff downbeat" }, { "t": 48, "word": "BOOM", "color": "#6b7cff", "key": "3", "note": "easy · main riff downbeat" }, { "t": 54, "word": "HIT", "color": "#4cd39b", "key": "4", "note": "easy · main riff downbeat" }, { "t": 60, "word": "SLAM", "color": "#F59F00", "key": "1", "note": "easy · main riff downbeat" }, { "t": 66, "word": "DRIVE", "color": "#E5603C", "key": "2", "note": "easy · main riff downbeat" }, { "t": 72, "word": "PULSE", "color": "#6b7cff", "key": "3", "note": "easy · main riff downbeat" }, { "t": 78, "word": "ROLL", "color": "#4cd39b", "key": "4", "note": "easy · main riff downbeat" }, { "t": 84, "word": "CRASH", "color": "#F59F00", "key": "1", "note": "easy · main riff downbeat" }, { "t": 95, "word": "MARCH", "color": "#E5603C", "key": "2", "note": "easy · verse 1 downbeat" }, { "t": 102, "word": "STAND", "color": "#6b7cff", "key": "3", "note": "easy · verse 1 downbeat" }, { "t": 109, "word": "STORM", "color": "#4cd39b", "key": "4", "note": "easy · verse 1 downbeat" }, { "t": 116, "word": "ROCK", "color": "#F59F00", "key": "1", "note": "easy · verse 1 downbeat" }, { "t": 123, "word": "THUNDER", "color": "#E5603C", "key": "2", "note": "easy · verse 1 downbeat" }, { "t": 130, "word": "CRY", "color": "#6b7cff", "key": "3", "note": "easy · verse 1 downbeat" }, { "t": 152, "word": "TIME", "color": "#F59F00", "key": "1", "note": "easy · chorus 1" }, { "t": 158, "word": "DAWN", "color": "#E5603C", "key": "2", "note": "easy · chorus 1" }, { "t": 164, "word": "TURN", "color": "#6b7cff", "key": "3", "note": "easy · chorus 1" }, { "t": 170, "word": "BELL", "color": "#4cd39b", "key": "4", "note": "easy · chorus 1" }, { "t": 188, "word": "TOLL", "color": "#F59F00", "key": "1", "note": "easy · outro" }, { "t": 195, "word": "PEAL", "color": "#E5603C", "key": "2", "note": "easy · outro" }, { "t": 202, "word": "RING", "color": "#6b7cff", "key": "3", "note": "easy · outro" } ] }, "meta": { "tag": "yeeplayer", "surface": "rhythm-game-easy" }, "author": "mh+cc", "source": "cc editorial 2026-04-21 04:42 PT — overnight tick 14. Topic-expand of ping 30 (Mike: 'for whom the bell tolls you tube yee player just like gituar hero, easy, medium, difficult'). Author = mh+cc per topic-expand protocol — Mike specified the song and the format; cc shipped the easy-mode beat-map MVP with placeholder YouTube ID, queued medium and hard for follow-up.", "mood": "yeeplayer", "moodUrl": "https://pointcast.xyz/mood/yeeplayer", "companions": [ { "id": "0352", "label": "Midjourney v8 — agentic-visual network read", "surface": "block" } ], "clock": null }