How does my track stack up to these tracks

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Ex3vious

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Hey guys,
Today I'm looking for some feedback on how my tracks sound compared to other similar tracks. I record backing tracks for YouTube so that players can jam over them. There are some tracks on Youtube that do really well, some of mine have done ok, but no where near as well as the top tracks. I would like some honest feedback on how my tracks compare to these other top tier tracks. Do these other tracks have something that mine don't, in what other ways are they different or better? Thanks for your time guys.

My Recent Track:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVxnZiztZQU

Popular YouTube backing tracks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvvH3wOHMUI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en1g6G-0ve0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKqoT16aUF4
 
Not sure what you're asking for. I didn't think those comparison vids were particularly good. Yours isn't any worse.
 
Well good thats why I'm asking. Those vids have 100,000 hits though and I would like to get my content to that level.
 
I get it. They've found a way to make some money by views, and good for them. You'd like to do the same. Not a bad idea. Looking at that first guy's channel, he's got a lot of videos. That's got to be key to building an audience--make a bunch of videos and just keep making them. His groove is nothing special. It sounds MIDI except for those processed guitars which are looped. He is an expressive lead guitar player, but the underlying groove is boring. Maybe that's what people want to jam along. If so, yours might be too complicated. Who knows?

I noticed he mixed his guitars lower, which makes sense if you want guitar players to jam along. Thought about putting the chord changes up on the vid?
 
Thanks for the feedback guys, I'll try to do more to better market my videos, but I first wanted to know if the content was as good as the competition. It seems the two of you are saying that content is not the issue. Thats good news.
 
Yeah, your track was certainly comparable to the others (much better than the 23 minute one. He needs to calm down on the over-compression and clipping)

It's really about the marketing. Get a following, and your video will have more hits.

Also, the 3rd one name-drops David Gilmour in it's title, which probably boosted views.
 
One of my videos has David Gilmour's name in its title its got about 2k views. Not sure how much that helps, but it could help.
 
Ex3vious said:
One of my videos has David Gilmour's name in its title its got about 2k views. Not sure how much that helps, but it could help.
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Considering that your top 5 most popular videos (by a pretty wide margin) include "David gilmour style backing track...", "Joe satriani style rock ballad...", and "black keys style blues guitar...", I'd say it helps! :D
(That and playing metal apparently>)
 
Well content-wise I noticed that the others are slower and seem to leave more space for the lead guitar. But I agree that it probably has more to do with advertising, the title, how many videos you have, etc. in other words not the content. That was interesting. I didn't know such a thing existed.
 
Yeah the artists name titles and the metal tracks seem to do really well. Working on another metal one right now.

And Jessica yes, backing tracks are used quite commonly among guitar players to practice improvisation.
 
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