Riffs, Beards & Gear YouTube Stats

@riffsandbeards · Music · Updated Nov 6, 2026

Riffs, Beards & Gear channel overview

Riffs, Beards & Gear (@riffsandbeards) is a YouTube channel in the Music niche created in 2006. It has 435K subscribers and 108M total views across 2.2K videos, an average of 49K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 30K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 18K views. Over the last 12 months, Riffs, Beards & Gear published 56 videos (21% Shorts), and 5 of them (9%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 12 days, Riffs, Beards & Gear gained 0 subscribers and 521K views, about 43K views a day.

How much does Riffs, Beards & Gear make?

Returbe estimates Riffs, Beards & Gear's YouTube ad revenue at $1K – $5K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $0.71 to $3.54, typically $1.59, based on the channel's niche, audience language and the share of its views coming from Shorts. At that rate, 1 million long-form views earn about $1.6K.

Ad revenue is only part of the picture: sponsorships, affiliate links, memberships and merch often pay more than ads. Learn how RPM varies by niche in how much YouTubers make per 1,000 views, or check any channel with the free monetization checker.

Upload schedule

Riffs, Beards & Gear publishes about 14.1 videos a month. Based on its last 56 uploads, its most common upload day is Monday (34% of uploads), usually around 12:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 5, 2026.

Riffs, Beards & Gear's best outlier videos

An outlier is a video that beats the channel's own typical views. These are Riffs, Beards & Gear's biggest hits relative to its normal, the ideas its audience responded to most. What is an outlier video?

• Could This Be The Future of Tube Amps?183K views · Oct 30, 202610.4× typical views
• A Jackson V Into A Joe Bonamassa Amp??55K views · Oct 22, 20266.2× typical views
• I Tried Zoom's New NEURIG Modeler...96K views · Oct 26, 20265.5× typical views
• The PRS For People Who Don't Play PRS?88K views · Oct 20, 20265× typical views
• The History Of High Gain Part 1: 1950s-1960s70K views · Sep 7, 20264× typical views
• The Long-Awaited Marshall Dookie Amp Is Finally Real45K views · Jul 21, 20262.6× typical views
• The History Of High Gain Part 2: 1970s-1980s40K views · Sep 14, 20262.3× typical views
• Zakk Wylde Used What??? #guitar #guitarist17K views · Jun 18, 20262× typical views

Latest videos

10 of Riffs, Beards & Gear's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• This Cab Loader Seriously Impressed Me | ReactorDSP Driftwood6.9K views · Nov 5, 20260.4× typical views
• BIAS X NAM Support! #guitar #guitarist #positivegrid1.7K views · Nov 4, 20260.2× typical views
• Rate Or Roast 11218K views · Nov 2, 20261× typical views
• Could This Be The Future of Tube Amps?183K views · Oct 30, 202610.4× typical views
• Joe Bonamassa Made a DIGITAL Amp?!13K views · Oct 28, 20260.8× typical views
• I Tried Zoom's New NEURIG Modeler...96K views · Oct 26, 20265.5× typical views
• Reamping 101: Record Once, Dial In Your Tone Later18K views · Oct 23, 20261× typical views
• A Jackson V Into A Joe Bonamassa Amp??55K views · Oct 22, 20266.2× typical views
• PRS Tekton! #guitar #metal #guitarist9.1K views · Oct 20, 20261× typical views
• The PRS For People Who Don't Play PRS?88K views · Oct 20, 20265× typical views

The Music niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 3.6K videos from 627 channels in this niche. 11.8% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 8K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $0.8 to $4.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Jennie bee.. (92K subs, best video 133.8×), SHARP (145K subs, best video 21×), Debates Capital (47K subs, best video 76.2×), everythingye (20K subs, best video 33.5×), Shorts Render (416K subs, best video 15.2×), MAXYUM (2.8K subs, best video 39.1×).

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Frequently asked questions

Data from Returbe's index of YouTube channels, collected from public YouTube data. Earnings are estimates from views and RPM benchmarks, not figures from the channel. Returbe is not affiliated with Riffs, Beards & Gear or YouTube.