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Shutup & Play - Guitar Tutorials - what's actually working, and what isn't

Music · 18-min uploads · 623K subscribers · started 2013 · ~0.3/week
Est. ad revenue$337–$1K/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 146 most recent of 366 long-form uploads. One of the music YouTube channels we track. Visit Shutup & Play - Guitar Tutorials on YouTube →

In Shutup & Play - Guitar Tutorials's own words
🎸 Guitar tutorials for many classic rock songs as well as some modern tunes. I really love the music from the late sixties through the early eighties. So many excellent musicians and great bands came out of that era where the focus was more on musicianship and songwriting. ℹ️ Check out my website...Based in CA

What are Shutup & Play - Guitar Tutorials's average views?

This channel runs on hits: its top 10% of videos pull 37% of all views and its biggest is 12.7× the median, so the median upload (173K views) is the floor and the big numbers are the exception.

173K
median views
12.7×
top vs median
25%
hit rate (2×+)
37%
views from top 10%

What is Shutup & Play - Guitar Tutorials's most popular video?

Its biggest hit is "how to play "Sultans Of Swing" on guitar by Dire Straits | PART 1 | RHYTHM & FILLS | guitar lesson" at 2.2M views - 12.7× the channel median. The other top performers:

Video titleViews
how to play "Sultans Of Swing" on guitar by Dire Straits | PART 1 | RHYTHM & FILLS | guitar lesson2.2M
how to play "Ventura Highway" on guitar by America | acoustic guitar lesson tutorial | LESSON2.1M
how to play Hotel California on acoustic guitar by The Eagles (intro lesson)1.1M

Which titles work best for Shutup & Play - Guitar Tutorials - 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 play "Sultans Of Swing" on guitar by Dire Straits | PART 1 | RHYTHM & FILLS | guitar lesson2.2M
how to play "Ventura Highway" on guitar by America | acoustic guitar lesson tutorial | LESSON2.1M
how to play Hotel California on acoustic guitar by The Eagles (intro lesson)1.1M
how to play "Shape Of My Heart" on guitar by Sting | guitar lesson tutorial1.0M
how to play "The Chain" on acoustic guitar by Fleetwood Mac | guitar lesson tutorial1.0M
how to play "Honky Tonk Women" on guitar by The Rolling Stones | guitar LESSON tutorial1.0M
how to play "The Boxer" on acoustic guitar by Simon and Garfunkel | guitar lesson tutorial850K
how to play "Gimme Shelter" on guitar by The Rolling Stones | rhythm & solo guitar lesson tutorials808K
how to play "Bron-Y-Aur Stomp" on guitar by Led Zeppelin | guitar lesson tutorial794K
how to play "Solsbury Hill" on guitar by Peter Gabriel | acoustic guitar lesson tutorial722K

And the uploads that underperformed for this channel:

Video titleViews
how to play "Talk To Ya Later" on guitar by The Tubes Steve Lukather | guitar lesson | RHYTHM76K
how to play "Say Goodbye" on guitar by Fleetwood Mac "live version" | guitar lesson | LESSON75K
how to play "Fiddler's Green" on guitar by The Tragically Hip | acoustic guitar lesson tutorial DEMO72K
how to play ''Your Love Is Forever" on guitar by George Harrison | acoustic guitar lesson tutorial70K
how to play "O Come All Ye Faithful - Adeste Fideles" on guitar | lesson tutorial68K
how to play "O Christmas Tree" on guitar | guitar lesson tutorial64K
how to play "Amelia" on guitar by Joni Mitchell | guitar lesson tutorial64K
how to play "No Surprises" on guitar by Radiohead | guitar lesson tutorial | DEMO62K
how to play "Darling SNL Live Performance" on guitar by Halsey and Lindsey Buckingham guitar lesson56K
how to play "Good King Wenceslas" on guitar | acoustic guitar lesson tutorial56K

Which title patterns actually move the needle

Not a guess - the real view lift of each pattern across 146 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 - Shutup & Play - Guitar Tutorials
Speaks to "you"10% of videos
-34%
An ALL-CAPS word42% of videos
+34%
The title formula for Shutup & Play - Guitar Tutorials

Lean on 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 34% here - the opposite of the usual "always do it" advice.

What keywords does Shutup & Play - Guitar Tutorials rank on?

Weighted by views, the topics this channel actually pulls traffic on are: acoustic lesson, electric lesson, rolling stones, sultans swing, swing dire, dire straits, america acoustic, rhythm fills. These are the lanes it owns - and the ones a similar channel competes against.

How often does Shutup & Play - Guitar Tutorials post, and when?

Shutup & Play - Guitar Tutorials publishes about 0.3 videos a week, most often on Fri.

Views by day of week
Sun
23
Mon
21
Tue
8
Wed
9
Thu
17
Fri
40
Sat
28

How long are Shutup & Play - Guitar Tutorials's videos?

Typical uploads run about 18 minutes. Broken down by length, its 20 min+ videos perform best (233K median views) - the format worth leaning into on this channel.

Median views by video length
20 min+
233K
10-20 min
162K
5-10 min
89K
under 5 min
72K

How does Shutup & Play - Guitar Tutorials compare to other music channels?

At 173K median views, Shutup & Play - Guitar Tutorials runs above the typical music channel we track (19K). It is outperforming its niche.

How much money does Shutup & Play - Guitar Tutorials 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, Shutup & Play - Guitar Tutorials pulls roughly 223K long-form views a month from recent uploads, which at a typical $1-4 RPM works out to an estimated $223-$893 a month in ad revenue (about $2,678-$10,712 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 Shutup & Play - Guitar Tutorials 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 173K views.

Shutup & Play - Guitar Tutorials stats at a glance

Subscribers623K
Total views133M
Videos published366
Avg views (of 146 analyzed)276K
Uploads per week0.3
Typical length18 min
On YouTube since2013 (13 yrs)

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Public YouTube data for Shutup & Play - Guitar Tutorials, analyzed by TubeHunter. We show the read, not a guarantee - titles are one lever, not magic.

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