“The first one was a struggle. Making the video was harder than making the album. I was fully expecting that it was going to be a train wreck”: How guitarist and YouTube sensation Rob Scallon manages to write – and record – a full album in one day

Rob Scallon sitting with three guitars on his lap.

Being a YouTuber is a relentless job – but being a guitar YouTuber means keeping up both your guitar and your content chops, lest your audience gets bored.

Rob Scallon, who’s been on YouTube for 17 years and racked up more than 2.58 million subscribers, is the first to admit that videos can be a hit or a miss, irrespective of how much time and how many resources go into executing them.