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Anyone Can Play Guitar - what's actually working, and what isn't

Music · 19-min uploads · 346K subscribers · started 2013 · ~1.1/week
Est. ad revenue$143–$572/morough estimate from recent upload pace at $1.5-6 RPM

Most stats sites hand you a subscriber count and an earnings guess. Neither answers the question that matters: which titles win on this channel, which flop, and what a creator should copy. Here is that read, from its 178 most recent of 582 long-form uploads. One of the music YouTube channels we track. Visit Anyone Can Play Guitar on YouTube →

In Anyone Can Play Guitar's own words
I'm Adrian. Welcome to my YouTube channel. I cover all manner of guitar-related stuff, with a particular emphasis on the alternative and the subversive: things overlooked or ignored by the majority of YouTube guitar channels. There's a new video here every Friday. Thanks for subscribing!Based in GB

How does Anyone Can Play Guitar perform on YouTube?

This channel runs on hits: its top 10% of videos pull 43% of all views and its biggest is 34.5× the median, so the median upload (20K views) is the floor and the big numbers are the exception.

20K
median views
34.5×
top vs median
20%
hit rate (2×+)
43%
views from top 10%

What is Anyone Can Play Guitar's most popular video?

Its biggest hit is "Get good at acoustic rhythm guitar: 7 grooves that really matter" at 689K views - 34.5× the channel median. The other top performers:

Video titleViews
Get good at acoustic rhythm guitar: 7 grooves that really matter689K
10 Legendary Riffs that will make you a better player in 2024372K
Hello Mary Lou - Classic country/rockabilly from James Burton157K

Which titles work best for Anyone Can Play Guitar - and which flop?

Same channel, same audience. The gap between these two lists is the title doing the work. Its strongest titles:

Video titleViews
Get good at acoustic rhythm guitar: 7 grooves that really matter689K
10 Legendary Riffs that will make you a better player in 2024372K
Hello Mary Lou - Classic country/rockabilly from James Burton157K
Wichita Lineman | The greatest song ever? | Guitar Lesson127K
Stormy Monday: an in-depth guide to a blues classic122K
How to craft tasty, beautiful soul guitar parts108K
10 essential jazz chords - learn these and play (nearly) any tune101K
Sleepwalk - an epic exploration of an instrumental guitar classic94K
Nailing those Cowboy I IV Vs - don't neglect this crucial skill92K
Chord Tone Soloing Secrets90K

And the uploads that underperformed for this channel:

Video titleViews
Death Trip by Iggy & The Stooges9K
Marquee Moon by Television, Part 2 of 8: Full Performance9K
Soul-Style Xmas: Santa Claus Is Coming To Town8K
The ACPG 30 Day Guitar Technique Challenge: Day 10 - Stretch!8K
Marquee Moon by Television, Part 3 of 8: The Main Riffs7K
Music Reading: essential knowledge or pointless for the modern guitarist?7K
The ACPG 30 Day Guitar Technique Challenge: Day 14 - 7th Arpeggios7K
The ACPG 30 Day Guitar Technique Challenge: Day 18 - More 7th Arpeggios7K
The ACPG 30 Day Guitar Technique Challenge: Day 19 - Fingerstyle7K
2026 Technique Challenge: Day 2, a great exercise for fretting hand strength and control6K

Which title patterns actually move the needle

Not a guess - the real view lift of each pattern across 178 uploads: median views with it versus without. This isolates the title from the topic, so you copy what works here and skip what does not - something no other tracker breaks down per channel.

View lift by title pattern - Anyone Can Play Guitar
Starts How / Why / What6% of videos
+83%
Includes a year5% of videos
-73%
Has a number36% of videos
-67%
An ALL-CAPS word21% of videos
-59%
Short title (≤6 words)8% of videos
+58%
Uses (brackets)12% of videos
+47%
The title formula for Anyone Can Play Guitar

Lean on starts how / why / what and short title (≤6 words) - they lift views the most on this channel. Go easy on includes a year.

includes a year drags views 73% below par here - worth easing off.

What keywords does Anyone Can Play Guitar rank on?

Weighted by views, the topics this channel actually pulls traffic on are: technique challenge, acpg technique, classic country, essential jazz, fretboard knowledge, complete guide, walking bass, essential fretboard. These are the lanes it owns - and the ones a similar channel competes against.

How often does Anyone Can Play Guitar post, and when?

Anyone Can Play Guitar publishes about 1.1 videos a week, most often on Fri.

Views by day of week
Sun
5
Mon
3
Tue
6
Wed
24
Thu
53
Fri
77
Sat
10

How long are Anyone Can Play Guitar's videos?

Typical uploads run about 19 minutes. Broken down by length, its 20 min+ videos perform best (30K median views) - the format worth leaning into on this channel.

Median views by video length
20 min+
30K
10-20 min
22K
under 5 min
10K
5-10 min
6K

How does Anyone Can Play Guitar compare to other music channels?

At 20K median views, Anyone Can Play Guitar runs above the typical music channel we track (19K). It is outperforming its niche.

Anyone Can Play Guitar's estimated YouTube earnings

Nobody outside the channel sees the real figure, and ad revenue is only part of it - sponsorships and merch often dwarf it. But from public view counts, Anyone Can Play Guitar pulls roughly 95K long-form views a month from recent uploads, which at a typical $1-4 RPM works out to an estimated $95-$378 a month in ad revenue (about $1,135-$4,541 a year). Treat it as a ballpark, not a payslip - real creator income varies wildly, and this ignores the back catalogue.

What should a channel like Anyone Can Play Guitar make next?

Copy what already works here, not generic advice: lean on the 20 min+ format, ship on Fri. The median is the bar - the goal of every upload is to clear 20K views.

Anyone Can Play Guitar stats at a glance

Subscribers346K
Total views49M
Videos published582
Avg views (of 178 analyzed)33K
Uploads per week1.1
Typical length19 min
On YouTube since2013 (13 yrs)

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