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Good Guitarist - what's actually working, and what isn't

Music · 11-min uploads · 645K subscribers · started 2014 · ~3.2/week
Est. ad revenue$127–$507/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 171 most recent of 1K long-form uploads. One of the music YouTube channels we track. Visit Good Guitarist on YouTube →

In Good Guitarist's own words
Good Guitarist offers accurate, no-fluff guitar lessons with built-in play-along sections to help you actually play-not just watch. Every video features easy-to-follow visuals showing the chords, rhythm, TAB, and more. These lessons are tested on real students, and I only share what works best....Based in CA

What are Good Guitarist's average views?

This channel runs on hits: its top 10% of videos pull 51% of all views and its biggest is 36.1× the median, so the median upload (6K views) is the floor and the big numbers are the exception.

6K
median views
36.1×
top vs median
20%
hit rate (2×+)
51%
views from top 10%

What is Good Guitarist's most popular video?

Its biggest hit is "5 Easy Guitar Songs to Impress Your Friends" at 220K views - 36.1× the channel median. The other top performers:

Video titleViews
5 Easy Guitar Songs to Impress Your Friends220K
Learn 'Riptide' on Guitar in Minutes! | 3 Easy Chords185K
First Guitar Lesson for Complete Beginners (Start Playing in Minutes)133K

Which titles work best for Good Guitarist - and which flop?

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

Video titleViews
5 Easy Guitar Songs to Impress Your Friends220K
Learn 'Riptide' on Guitar in Minutes! | 3 Easy Chords185K
First Guitar Lesson for Complete Beginners (Start Playing in Minutes)133K
9 Super Easy Guitar Songs (Start Here)68K
Top 5 Exercises for Beginner Guitar Players44K
Learn Guitar Strumming in 5 Minutes (Step-by-Step)40K
Hotel California Acoustic Guitar Lesson with Walk-Ups, Licks & Riffs (+ TAB)37K
Country Strumming Made Easy: The Boom-Chuck Rhythm30K
The G Chord Trick Every Beginner Should Know30K
100% of Great Guitarists Practice THIS Way (Do You?)24K

And the uploads that underperformed for this channel:

Video titleViews
How to Play the "Folsom Prison Blues" Guitar Solo - Johnny Cash3K
"Suzanne" Fingerstyle Guitar Lesson - Easy + Full Version3K
Under Pressure Guitar Lesson + Famous Riff3K
How to Practice Guitar Without Playing Chords3K
How to Play FAITH (George Michael) - Beginner-Friendly Guitar Version3K
Learn the Sleepwalk Lead on Acoustic Guitar3K
How Deep Is Your Love | Fingerstyle Guitar Lesson (Bee Gees)3K
Open E Tuning - 3 Easy Ways to Make Music3K
Stop Memorizing Scale Shapes - Do This Instead3K
How to Play "Hey Jude" by The Beatles - Easy Guitar Lesson (No Barre Chords!)3K

Which title patterns actually move the needle

Not a guess - the real view lift of each pattern across 171 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 - Good Guitarist
Has a number29% of videos
+47%
Speaks to "you"21% of videos
-20%
Starts How / Why / What18% of videos
-17%
An ALL-CAPS word11% of videos
+17%
The title formula for Good Guitarist

Lean on has a number and an all-caps word - they lift views the most on this channel. Go easy on speaks to "you".

What keywords does Good Guitarist rank on?

Weighted by views, the topics this channel actually pulls traffic on are: chords strumming, acoustic lesson, chord trick, learn strumming, every beginner, lesson chords, easiest play, back basics. These are the lanes it owns - and the ones a similar channel competes against.

How often does Good Guitarist post, and when?

Good Guitarist publishes about 3.2 videos a week, most often on Fri.

Views by day of week
Sun
14
Mon
10
Tue
16
Wed
10
Thu
16
Fri
91
Sat
14

How long are Good Guitarist's videos?

Typical uploads run about 11 minutes. Broken down by length, its 10-20 min videos perform best (7K median views) - the format worth leaning into on this channel.

Median views by video length
10-20 min
7K
5-10 min
6K
under 5 min
2K

How does Good Guitarist compare to other music channels?

At 6K median views, Good Guitarist sits below the typical music channel we track (19K) - there is headroom.

How much money does Good Guitarist make on YouTube?

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, Good Guitarist pulls roughly 84K long-form views a month from recent uploads, which at a typical $1-4 RPM works out to an estimated $84-$336 a month in ad revenue (about $1,007-$4,029 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 Good Guitarist make next?

Copy what already works here, not generic advice: lean on the 10-20 min format, ship on Fri. The median is the bar - the goal of every upload is to clear 6K views.

Good Guitarist stats at a glance

Subscribers645K
Total views78M
Videos published1K
Avg views (of 171 analyzed)11K
Engagement rate11.1%
Uploads per week3.2
Typical length11 min
On YouTube since2014 (12 yrs)

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