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MT Guitar - what's actually working, and what isn't

Music · 15-min uploads · 73K subscribers · started 2020 · ~1.5/week
Est. ad revenue$44–$175/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 156 most recent of 771 long-form uploads. One of the music YouTube channels we track. Visit MT Guitar on YouTube →

In MT Guitar's own words
Guitar lessons and tutorials to advance and enhance your playing! Learn how to play guitar through learning songs, theory, picking techniques, and technical exercises. Every week we will learn more songs, riffs, solos, chords and progressions. We'll dive into, scales, fingerpicking, strumming...Based in US

MT Guitar's YouTube stats: views and performance

This channel runs on hits: its top 10% of videos pull 47% of all views and its biggest is 24× the median, so the median upload (5K views) is the floor and the big numbers are the exception.

5K
median views
24×
top vs median
23%
hit rate (2×+)
47%
views from top 10%

What is MT Guitar's most popular video?

Its biggest hit is "Time (Acoustic) - Pink Floyd Friday Guitar Lesson" at 108K views - 24× the channel median. The other top performers:

Video titleViews
Time (Acoustic) - Pink Floyd Friday Guitar Lesson108K
The Most Beautiful Chord Progression by Radiohead81K
10 Timeless Riffs that made me a better musician69K

Which titles work best for MT 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
Time (Acoustic) - Pink Floyd Friday Guitar Lesson108K
The Most Beautiful Chord Progression by Radiohead81K
10 Timeless Riffs that made me a better musician69K
This Neil Young Song Teaches You 4 Necessary Acoustic Guitar Skills44K
Why Every Guitarist Needs the Blues (and the 4 Steps to Play it)44K
Drift Away Guitar Lesson + Tutorial - Dobie Gray37K
James Taylor - Something In The Way She Moves Guitar Lesson (Complete)37K
Hey Joe (Acoustic) - Jimi Hendrix Guitar Lesson36K
Riders on the Storm Guitar Lesson - The Doors (Acoustic)30K
Mother (Complete Breakdown + Guitar Lesson) - Pink Floyd Friday25K

And the uploads that underperformed for this channel:

Video titleViews
The Sound of Silence (Acoustic) Guitar Lesson - Simon & Garfunkel2K
7 Steps to Play over any Song and Chord Progression2K
Grateful Dead Althea Guitar Lesson (Acoustic + Jerry Garcia Lead Tutorial)2K
How to Bend like David Gilmour (Acoustic) - Pink Floyd Friday2K
The Song that Spans Decades of Rock and Roll History2K
Easily Sound Good as Fast as Possible (and what to do from there)2K
Turning a Scale into Chords - 4 Exercises2K
Chord Inversions Change Your Understanding2K
Top 10 Tips to Transform your Playing (and finally improve)2K
Lick of the Day - Ep 1: Series Premiere!2K

The words that win for MT Guitar

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

Which title patterns actually move the needle

Not a guess - the real view lift of each pattern across 156 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 - MT Guitar
Has a number12% of videos
-36%
The title formula for MT Guitar

Its biggest drag is has a number - worth avoiding.

Surprise: has a number costs this channel 36% here - the opposite of the usual "always do it" advice.

What keywords does MT Guitar rank on?

Weighted by views, the topics this channel actually pulls traffic on are: pink floyd, floyd friday, acoustic pink, friday lesson, chord progression, acoustic lesson, breakdown lesson, bob dylan. These are the lanes it owns - and the ones a similar channel competes against.

How often does MT Guitar post, and when?

MT Guitar publishes about 1.5 videos a week, most often on Sat.

Views by day of week
Sun
7
Mon
9
Tue
4
Wed
11
Thu
3
Fri
39
Sat
83

How long are MT Guitar's videos?

Typical uploads run about 15 minutes. Broken down by length, its 10-20 min videos perform best (5K median views) - the format worth leaning into on this channel.

Median views by video length
10-20 min
5K
20 min+
3K
under 5 min
3K
5-10 min
3K

How does MT Guitar compare to other music channels?

At 5K median views, MT Guitar sits below the typical music channel we track (19K) - there is headroom.

What is MT Guitar's net worth and estimated 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, MT Guitar pulls roughly 29K long-form views a month from recent uploads, which at a typical $1-4 RPM works out to an estimated $29-$116 a month in ad revenue (about $348-$1,393 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 MT Guitar make next?

Copy what already works here, not generic advice: lean on the 10-20 min format, ship on Sat, and build titles around its proven words (lesson, acoustic). The median is the bar - the goal of every upload is to clear 5K views.

MT Guitar stats at a glance

Subscribers73K
Total views8.8M
Videos published771
Avg views (of 156 analyzed)9K
Uploads per week1.5
Typical length15 min
On YouTube since2020 (6 yrs)

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