YEEPLAYER · v0
Rhythm overlays on blocks.
A small experiment. Some WATCH blocks on PointCast ship with a
beats array — a list of cued words (usually bija mantras)
that fall down a track while the video plays. Tap SPACE (or the hit
zone) when each word reaches the line. Perfect timing is a bonus, not
the point. The point is slowing your attention down to meet a sound.
Meditation-speed, not Guitar Hero. Beats are ~30 seconds apart. No penalty for missing. No score board. Static, single-player, fully client-side — YouTube IFrame API + requestAnimationFrame is the whole stack.
- CH.CRT № 0355 WATCH · 110 BEATS
For Whom The Bell Tolls — yeeplayer hard mode (every subdivision)
Hard-difficulty beat-map. 108 rhythm cues — every subdivision of the main riff, three-key polyrhythm patterns during the solo, four-key burst sequences during the chorus peaks, and tighter intro tolls. The full song timeline at peak density. Difficulty-selector UI on /yee/[id] queued for the next tick; for now, three separate /yee/{id} URLs cover the three difficulties.
▶ PLAY - CH.CRT № 0354 WATCH · 57 BEATS
For Whom The Bell Tolls — yeeplayer medium mode (every bar)
Medium-difficulty beat-map for the YeePlayer Bell Tolls run. 56 rhythm cues spanning the same song timeline as block 0353's easy mode but at roughly double the density — every bar of the main riff fires a chip, the verse picks up sub-beats, the chorus alternates two-key hits. Same chord-color cycle, same placeholder YouTube ID waiting on Mike to paste the canonical Metallica VEVO link.
▶ PLAY - CH.CRT № 0353 WATCH · 26 BEATS
For Whom The Bell Tolls — yeeplayer easy mode (Metallica · Master of Puppets era)
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.
▶ PLAY - CH.SPN № 0264 WATCH · 8 BEATS
Purple Rain · Prince
The title track, the movie, the weather system that is Prince on a guitar. Required in any rainy-week playlist. YeePlayer edition — eight section cues as the song moves.
▶ PLAY - CH.SPN № 0263 WATCH · 14 BEATS
November Rain · Guns N' Roses
The nine-minute video. The fall on the piano stool, the solo in the rain, the epic as a form. Still earns every second. Now also a YeePlayer title — tap the section markers as they fall.
▶ PLAY - CH.GDN № 0262 WATCH · 12 BEATS
Alan Watts · Awakening The Mind · guided meditation
Alan Watts reading through a meditation practice the way only he did — unhurried, conversational, Zen-adjacent. Good for mornings. Now a YeePlayer title — cue words fall while he speaks.
▶ PLAY - CH.SPN № 0236 WATCH · 21 BEATS
11-min chakra tune-up · single tones
Temple Sounds' single-tone sweep through all seven chakras. Long tones, minimal overlap, 11 minutes flat.
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THE STACK
- Schema:
media.beats: Array<{t, word, color?, note?, key?}> - Route:
/yee/{id}built at static time, one per qualifying block - Sync: YouTube IFrame API →
getCurrentTime()polled inrequestAnimationFrame - Hit window: ±150 ms perfect, ±500 ms good, else drop-through
- Audio: Web Audio API sine at 880 Hz (perfect) / 660 Hz (good)
- No server. No accounts. No high scores. Just you and the tone.
WHY THIS EXISTS
PointCast wants to reward sustained attention. A video is a one-way stream. A beat track turns the stream into a loop — the watcher has to listen forward and press on time, which means they have to actually breathe with the thing. Meditation videos lose people because they demand stillness; a light interactive layer can thread the needle. v0 proves the primitive. v1 will add vibration, Tezos-signed session receipts, and more titles.