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Learning Guitar Now - what's actually working, and what isn't

Music · 12-min uploads · 108K subscribers · started 2007 · ~0.3/week
Est. ad revenue$31–$125/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 175 most recent of 328 long-form uploads. One of the music YouTube channels we track. Visit Learning Guitar Now on YouTube →

In Learning Guitar Now's own words
Hi I'm John W. Tuggle and I want to show you how to play slide guitar and blues guitar in the style of Eric Clapton, Johnny Winter, BB King, Duane Allman, Derek Trucks and more with these free lesson on YouTube. You can gain access to all of my premium lessons on my site by becoming an All Access...Based in US

What are Learning Guitar Now's average views?

This channel runs on hits: its top 10% of videos pull 63% of all views and its biggest is 118.8× the median, so the median upload (16K views) is the floor and the big numbers are the exception.

16K
median views
118.8×
top vs median
26%
hit rate (2×+)
63%
views from top 10%

What is Learning Guitar Now's most popular video?

Its biggest hit is "How to Solo over a 12 Bar Blues in the Key of A" at 1.9M views - 118.8× the channel median. The other top performers:

Video titleViews
How to Solo over a 12 Bar Blues in the Key of A1.9M
Use ONLY ONE Position for Slow Blues702K
John Mayer Slow Blues Lick Lesson Podcast 18613K

Which titles work best for Learning Guitar Now - and which flop?

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

Video titleViews
How to Solo over a 12 Bar Blues in the Key of A1.9M
Use ONLY ONE Position for Slow Blues702K
John Mayer Slow Blues Lick Lesson Podcast 18613K
Mixing Major and Minor Scales Like Eric Clapton238K
Clapton Have You Ever Loved a Woman Style Slow Blues Lesson165K
Beginner Slow Blues Solo Lesson in A152K
Derek Trucks MUST KNOW Open E Slide Licks134K
How a BEGINNER can Start Improvising Blues Guitar over a 12 Bar Blues the RIGHT WAY121K
12 Bar Minor Slow Blues Solo Lesson111K
Beginner 12 Bar Slow Blues Solo in A Lesson96K

And the uploads that underperformed for this channel:

Video titleViews
Clapton Cream Style Born Under a Bad Sign Lesson7K
Skynyrd Inspired Blues Rock Lesson7K
Stormy Monday 4th Pentatonic Position Lick - Podcast 427K
Combining Major and Minor Over a Slow Blues7K
Clapton Cream Style Slow Blues Lesson7K
Do This To Make Your Blues Solos Sound Way Better7K
ZZ Top Style Hybrid Picking Blues Rhythm Lesson6K
Combine Blues Licks with Chords in a Slow Blues - Part 26K
Beginner Level Clapton Tore Down Lesson | Do this Exercise6K
Beginner Slow Blues in Bb Solo Lesson5K

The words that win for Learning Guitar Now

These show up across its winners but barely in its flops - the angles this audience actually clicks: solo bar.

Which title patterns actually move the needle

Not a guess - the real view lift of each pattern across 175 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 - Learning Guitar Now
Best / top / worst / ultimate6% of videos
+88%
An ALL-CAPS word10% of videos
+56%
Speaks to "you"7% of videos
-41%
Has a number35% of videos
+25%
Starts How / Why / What7% of videos
+25%
The title formula for Learning Guitar Now

Lean on best / top / worst / ultimate and an all-caps word - they lift views the most on this channel. Go easy on speaks to "you".

Surprise: speaks to "you" costs this channel 41% here - the opposite of the usual "always do it" advice.

What keywords does Learning Guitar Now rank on?

Weighted by views, the topics this channel actually pulls traffic on are: slow blues, bar blues, solo lesson, blues solo, lesson podcast, only position, blues lesson, john mayer. These are the lanes it owns - and the ones a similar channel competes against.

How often does Learning Guitar Now post, and when?

Learning Guitar Now publishes about 0.3 videos a week, most often on Thu.

Views by day of week
Sun
20
Mon
17
Tue
27
Wed
26
Thu
33
Fri
29
Sat
23

How long are Learning Guitar Now's videos?

Typical uploads run about 12 minutes. Broken down by length, its 20 min+ videos perform best (21K median views) - the format worth leaning into on this channel.

Median views by video length
20 min+
21K
10-20 min
17K
5-10 min
14K
under 5 min
5K

How does Learning Guitar Now compare to other music channels?

At 16K median views, Learning Guitar Now sits below the typical music channel we track (19K) - there is headroom.

How much money does Learning Guitar Now 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, Learning Guitar Now pulls roughly 21K long-form views a month from recent uploads, which at a typical $1-4 RPM works out to an estimated $21-$83 a month in ad revenue (about $248-$991 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 Learning Guitar Now make next?

Copy what already works here, not generic advice: lean on the 20 min+ format, ship on Thu, and build titles around its proven words (solo, bar). The median is the bar - the goal of every upload is to clear 16K views.

Learning Guitar Now stats at a glance

Subscribers108K
Total views34M
Videos published328
Avg views (of 175 analyzed)44K
Uploads per week0.3
Typical length12 min
On YouTube since2007 (19 yrs)

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Public YouTube data for Learning Guitar Now, analyzed by TubeHunter. We show the read, not a guarantee - titles are one lever, not magic.

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