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Beyond The Guitar Academy - what's actually working, and what isn't

Music · 12-min uploads · 57K subscribers · started 2017 · ~0.2/week
Est. ad revenue$27–$109/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 44 long-form uploads. One of the music YouTube channels we track. Visit Beyond The Guitar Academy on YouTube →

In Beyond The Guitar Academy's own words
I'm Nathan Mills. I created BeyondTheGuitar.com because I love making my own arrangements of my favorite music, and I want to teach you how to do the same. On this channel I teach you how to create your own classical and fingerstyle guitar arrangements by ear, covering a variety of topics involved...Based in US

How does Beyond The Guitar Academy perform on YouTube?

This channel runs on hits: its top 10% of videos pull 47% of all views and its biggest is 14× the median, so the median upload (21K views) is the floor and the big numbers are the exception.

21K
median views
14×
top vs median
23%
hit rate (2×+)
47%
views from top 10%

What is Beyond The Guitar Academy's most popular video?

Its biggest hit is "The Secret To A Great Tremolo" at 294K views - 14× the channel median. The other top performers:

Video titleViews
The Secret To A Great Tremolo294K
The Only TREMOLO Exercise You'll Ever Need153K
How To Make Your Very First Guitar Arrangement116K

Which titles work best for Beyond The Guitar Academy - and which flop?

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

Video titleViews
The Secret To A Great Tremolo294K
The Only TREMOLO Exercise You'll Ever Need153K
How To Make Your Very First Guitar Arrangement116K
How To Play Fingerstyle Guitar Percussion91K
Ear Training 101: How To Identify Chords By Ear (Part 1)91K
50 Guitar Tips in 10 Minutes from a Professional Classical Guitarist60K
The BEST Software For Making Guitar Arrangements57K
Ear Training 101: My Favorite Ear Training App50K
3 Easy Ways To Harmonize Melodies On Guitar48K

And the uploads that underperformed for this channel:

Video titleViews
How The 20 SECOND RULE Can Help You Practice More Guitar8K
My Student FIXED My Guitar Arrangement8K
The "Free Solo" Mindset - How To Practice Guitar Like A Pro7K
The Ultimate Hammer-On Exercise6K
5 BEAUTIFUL Chords To Spice Up Your Guitar Arrangements6K
The Villa-Lobos Effect: I stole this idea from a famous guitar composer5K
How To Crush Your Musical Goals This Year5K
Make Better Guitar Arrangements Without Changing A SINGLE Note5K
How I Create Guitar Mashups - Seamlessly Blending 2 Different Songs5K

The words that win for Beyond The Guitar Academy

These show up across its winners but barely in its flops - the angles this audience actually clicks: tremolo ear training.

Which title patterns actually move the needle

Not a guess - the real view lift of each pattern across 44 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 - Beyond The Guitar Academy
Has a number34% of videos
+50%
Uses (brackets)23% of videos
+50%
Starts How / Why / What23% of videos
+30%
An ALL-CAPS word57% of videos
-18%
The title formula for Beyond The Guitar Academy

Lean on has a number and uses (brackets) - they lift views the most on this channel. Go easy on an all-caps word.

What keywords does Beyond The Guitar Academy rank on?

Weighted by views, the topics this channel actually pulls traffic on are: ear training, training identify, identify chords, chords ear, tremolo, secret, great, exercise. These are the lanes it owns - and the ones a similar channel competes against.

How often does Beyond The Guitar Academy post, and when?

Beyond The Guitar Academy publishes about 0.2 videos a week, most often on Mon.

Views by day of week
Sun
6
Mon
17
Tue
17
Wed
3
Thu
1
Fri
0
Sat
0

How long are Beyond The Guitar Academy's videos?

Typical uploads run about 12 minutes. Broken down by length, its 10-20 min videos perform best (29K median views) - the format worth leaning into on this channel.

Median views by video length
10-20 min
29K
5-10 min
13K

How does Beyond The Guitar Academy compare to other music channels?

At 21K median views, Beyond The Guitar Academy runs above the typical music channel we track (19K). It is outperforming its niche.

Beyond The Guitar Academy'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, Beyond The Guitar Academy pulls roughly 18K long-form views a month from recent uploads, which at a typical $1-4 RPM works out to an estimated $18-$72 a month in ad revenue (about $217-$867 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 Beyond The Guitar Academy make next?

Copy what already works here, not generic advice: lean on the 10-20 min format, ship on Mon, and build titles around its proven words (tremolo, ear, training). The median is the bar - the goal of every upload is to clear 21K views.

Beyond The Guitar Academy stats at a glance

Subscribers57K
Total views1.6M
Videos published45
Avg views (of 44 analyzed)36K
Uploads per week0.2
Typical length12 min
On YouTube since2017 (9 yrs)

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