blinktwice4y, MIDI, and the Internet

So you'll need to read the whole story for you to participate.

An average dude who likes to check out new music on the Internet is using a day off to surf around YouTube. While trying to find a piano tutorial for Ben Folds' songs, he stumbles upon a great cover of...
The Luckiest.



Impressed by the cover so much, he gets totally distracted from finding tutorials. He clicks on the user's name in the corner of the screen to find out more about him.

He finds another great cover...

Everlong


And unlike "The Luckiest", everyone who reads this page has probably heard Everlong. Just about everyone that clicked on the video probably thought the guy was awesome now, too.

Back to the story, the guy then does some research and finds all of the stuff out he can on the musician, and that's when we really get to meet "blinktwice4y".

blinktwice4y isn't just talented - he's also aspiring.

Many of the videos posted on his page aren't covers. They are original work. So the guy clicks on one of the songs to check it out, and finds..

Sentimental



At this point, the random dude thinks this guy is no joke. In fact, the random dude is not the only one who thinks so. Far from it.

Enter Dwight Mallory.

Otherwise known as "dustypuppy" on YouTube, Dwight is a musician, piano expert and technician. He's also good with production and technology, and he decides to take Sentimental and give it a band to play with...

Sentimental with backup..



And there you have it, the random dude is sold. Not just on blinktwice4y, but also on the amazingness of the Internet. The dude then decides to post a video on the internet of the music, because he likes to share. However, he can't decide which one to pick.

So he puts them up in order, and he hopes that people listen to them in order. And then he hopes that people like it, and pass it along to their friends to listen. He also wants people to check out the direct link to the artist's page, and he hopes people can keep the word going and going.

And maybe someone else will come along and rip the YouTube video onto an mp3. And maybe it will surface on myspace or limewire. And maybe then people start googling the song, or the artist, or Dwight, or whatever. Or maybe someone will pass this link along to someone else, and then onto someone else, and then onto someone who works for a label. And that person's boss eventually sees it.

And then a star is born.


And then blinktwice4y will be rich.
And everyone here can say they saw him 'way back when'.

I think this guy has a future, no?
Check it out.
Pass it on.
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=blinktwice4y

Sentimental

rest your head a little while
and I will try to explain of love
and all of that
see we were young and cavalier
and we have scars and tears to smile at now

we both knew what had to be done
but it turns out I'm not that brave or strong
so you had to be the one
because you had courage all along

we were lost and never found
you were hurt and i was proud
i was never there for you
and we forgot the things we knew

sentimental though it seems
you were mine love
though I tell you I'm alright
I lie love

sweetheart this is killing me
is it killing you?
but I know that things will work out fine
so I show my teeth when I laugh out loud
and pretend that wounds will heal in time

chorus bridge chorus chorus

the end