Well, at least some good has come out of the whole Coldplay/Satriani plagiarism affair. Winnipeg guitar teacher, Andrew Wasson, owner of CreativeGuitar.ca, made a 9 minute video analysis of the tunes and posted it on YouTube.com. It went viral:

Since then, Wasson’s video on YouTube has received more than 670,000 views and earned him a coveted place in YouTube’s Partner Program, earning him a modest monthly income.

“The opportunity for me arose to go and do that video, and build some traffic and build a little bit of recognition for myself on YouTube, and it’s worked really well. I kind of figured it would go pretty viral,” Wasson said.

Wasson also received numerous calls from lawyers and a very complimentary email from a professor at Boston’s Berklee College of Music. Wasson has gone from zero to close to 1,500 regular subscribers to his website and drawn the ire of countless Coldplay fans.

“There’s people that are obviously Coldplay fans that are essentially creating fake accounts and they’re … spamming my videos with comments that are derogatory, everything from `You did it all wrong’ to `You’re crazy.’ That’s putting it nicely. I thought that was very strange.”

And without further ado, I’d like to present Mr. Wasson: