Some essential tips on uploading youtube guitar videos and making money from them

Making youtube videos is a good way to make some side income if you are a guitar player/musician. It was a really good source few years back but these days there are too many videos and too many youtubers. So it gets difficult to stand out and get a decent crowd even if your video is of great quality. There are lots of tricks and tips on how you can make your video stand out among all other videos and I will talk about that on a different article. But here I will only talk about the types of videos that you can make.

Your own composition:
If you write your own music then youtube can be a very good platform to get some audience for your music. Write music of different styles and genre, for different moods and upload them on youtube. Naming your song is the key part in getting good search engine response. Make sure to mention the sort of mood/emotion your music can create for example sad,happy, romantic tc and use that in the name of your song or atleast in the tag section.

Backing tracks:
Another useful thing that can get you a decent traffic would be backing tracks or jam along tracks. upload backing tracks in different keys of different genre. They seem to be really popular among musicians as they can practice improvisation over these tracks. Try uploading backing tracks on keys that are not very common. That way you will have higher chance of being in the top videos in the search list.

Cover songs:
Covering your favorite songs, solos etc is another good way of getting lots of hits. But you have to be careful with this because in most cases monetization will not be allowed if you play your part over the original track/song. If you want your videos to be monetized, you will need to make rendition of the songs instead of covering it as it is. It will be more like your version of that song/solo. That way you can monetize them and also can get lots of traffic.