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You would need to use an audio editing program like GarageBand, Audacity, Acid, Pro Tools, etc... and actually change the music. I'm not sure if simply adding an effect like delay will count enough for Youtube.
I think you can use the Halo music if you include the "Created under Microsoft's Game Content Usage Rules..." tidbit however, I'm sure that you can use Halo's music that way but only for a regular non-partner channel. To get a partnership you need original content, or obtain the licenses to use copyrighted material. You can always try using royalty-free stock music instead of Halo music. I know this website here offers free royalty-free music downloads. All the music was created by the site owner so he owns the copyrights to them and if he wants to give them away for free that's his call.
If you really wanted to use Halo music on Youtube and still be able to get a Youtube Partnership, I would recommend buying a MIDI keyboard, learning how to play the songs you want, and then making slight changes to the melodies.
My friend and I suffered from this about 2 years ago. We made a little series on Youtube called "Teammates of Genius", a parody of the "Real Men of Genius" commercials. We used an instrumental version of the original song and it worked fine until we got a partnership with Machinima. Since the song was copyrighted and not original we couldn't use it in our new videos. So I decided to make my own version of the song, it had to be close enough to the original that people would recognize it but different enough so that Machinima would let us use it.
Here is the original unedited Real Men of Genius song
Real Men of Genius
and here is my version which Machinima said was okay to use.
Teammates of Genuis
If you listen closely you can hear the differences, the bass melody is different, the piano is different, and instead of a choir singing in the background, I used strings. I tried to keep the drums identical though to help people recognize the rhythm. The notes are pretty much the same as the Real Men of Genius song, I just played them in different order.
I used GarageBand and a MIDI keyboard to recreate the song. Once you learn how to play each of the individual parts, you can rearrange them any way you want. Hope that helps.