What is Pro Gig Academy?

Pro Gig Academy is a free Skool community for solo acoustic guitarists and singers who want to become confident solo performers, created in November 2024. It is run by Finbar Horgan, whose YouTube channel is about helping guitarists and singers get paid gigs playing cover songs.

How much does Pro Gig Academy cost?

Pro Gig Academy was free to join on Skool when last read, 6 Sept 2026; its listing showed no charge.

How many members does Pro Gig Academy have?

Pro Gig Academy lists 5,308 members, read 31 Oct 2026.

How has Pro Gig Academy's membership changed?

From 5,142 members on 24 Aug 2026, our first reading, to 5,308 on 31 Oct 2026: up 166, or 3%.

How does Pro Gig Academy compare with other music and audio communities?

Pro Gig Academy is free to join, where the median priced music and audio listing charges $14.50 a month. The niche median is 508 members. Pricing benchmarks by niche.

What else does Pro Gig Academy's seller list?

The same seller has 1 other listing we track: Top 50 Solo Gigging Setlist.

What do you get inside Pro Gig Academy?

Pro Gig Academy publishes 33 course modules, 3 courses, 2,879 posts, 4 admins. Communities with the most course content.

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Pro Gig Academy review

Pro Gig Academy is listed on Skool. It was free to join at our last price reading, on 6 Sept 2026.

A review on the numbers, not an opinion: nobody here has joined Pro Gig Academy, and nothing below is a verdict.

Pro Gig Academy is a free Skool community for solo acoustic guitarists and singers who want to become confident solo performers, created in November 2024.^[1] It is run by Finbar Horgan, whose YouTube channel is about helping guitarists and singers get paid gigs playing cover songs.^[2]

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Members: 5,308
Published price: Free to join; no paid tier published here, last read 6 Sept 2026
Members, last 32 days: +67; 28 Sept 2026 to 31 Oct 2026
Rank by members: #354; of 6,081 sellers listed here
Size rank in niche: #7; of 171 sellers listed in music and audio, by published members
Check the Course score: 95; A, very strong
Niche: Music and audio; 175 listed here
Created: 26 Nov 2024; Skool publishes this date
Readings: 15; since 24 Aug 2026

About Pro Gig Academy

Members get a weekly community Q&A call, the Pro Gig Academy Course, which Horgan presents as a step-by-step system for starting to gig, and a 50-song solo gigging setlist.^[1] The group also connects musicians from around the world.^[1]

A second YouTube channel shares stories from musicians Horgan says were helped to become confident solo performers, and invites viewers to book a call to explore working with Horgan.^[3]

Sources

Skool listing: skool.com/pro-gig-academy, as collected 23 Sept 2026
YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UC95ABk740nAey9xRRXh8gjw, retrieved 28 Sept 2026
YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCHbfLBTHsJUVfAN2I1r-tBg, retrieved 28 Sept 2026

Compiled by Check the Course from the sources listed, to the best of our ability.

How Skool files this

NicheMusic and audioFormatCourse

Skool files this seller under this category. The platform’s classification, not ours.

What is inside

Course modules

Courses

Posts, all time

2,879

People running it

Counts published by Pro Gig Academy on its own page, read on 6 Sept 2026: how much is included, never how good it is. Listed as run by finbar-horgan-5856.

How we knowSourced & dated

Observed on 31 Oct 2026 from Skool source page archived copy 9d161ede24ce.

Observable monthly ceiling

monthly price, read 6 Sept 2026

5,182

published members, read 6 Sept 2026

theoretical ceiling per month, as at 6 Sept 2026

This community is published as free, so the figure is zero. Its members are an audience, not customers. Nothing here estimates what that audience might be worth, and no price is applied to it anywhere on this site.

Against the music and audio niche

Percentile among the other 174 music and audio listings here, each seller counted once for size.

Size96th

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Check the Course Score

95AVery strong

Ahead of 95% of the 13,510 Skool communities we track, including ones without a page here, on the measures below, each read from a figure Pro Gig Academy published itself.

Size 53% of the scoreahead of 96%
Growth 27% of the scoreahead of 52%
Track record 20% of the scoreahead of 71%

An algorithmic position among tracked listings: not an endorsement, a guarantee or advice. How the score works.

Present in every one of the 10 weeks recorded since August 2026, with no week missing.

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Evidence and signals

Listed on 5,308 members.

Evidence: measured.

Following elsewhere: 62,400 at its largest62,400 on YouTube. Followers on another platform, not members here.
First recorded: 24 August 2026our first reading, not its launch
Elsewhere: YouTube

Tracked over time

Member change

+2+0.038%over 4 days+67+1.3%over 32 days

Price change

One reading with a price so far

15 observations over 68 days.

Member count

Observation log

Observation log
Observed	Members	Change	Price	Ceiling / month
31 Oct 2026	5,308	+2	Not recorded	Not calculated
27 Oct 2026	5,306	+10	Not recorded	Not calculated
23 Oct 2026	5,296	+8	Not recorded	Not calculated
19 Oct 2026	5,288	+4	Not recorded	Not calculated
15 Oct 2026	5,284	+11	Not recorded	Not calculated
11 Oct 2026	5,273	+10	Not recorded	Not calculated
7 Oct 2026	5,263	+2	Not recorded	Not calculated
3 Oct 2026	5,261	+20	Not recorded	Not calculated
28 Sept 2026	5,241	+17	Not recorded	Not calculated
23 Sept 2026	5,224	+24	Not recorded	Not calculated
14 Sept 2026	5,200	+16	Not recorded	Not calculated
7 Sept 2026	5,184	+2	Not recorded	Not calculated
6 Sept 2026	5,182	+21	Free to join	Not calculated
31 Aug 2026	5,161	+19	Not recorded	Not calculated
24 Aug 2026	5,142		Not recorded	Not calculated
Average per week, last 32 days28 Sept 2026 to 31 Oct 2026		+15
Average per week, since first reading24 Aug 2026 to 31 Oct 2026		+17

Seller’s followers on other platforms

Seller’s followers on other platforms
Read, about monthly	YouTube	TikTok
6 Oct 2026	62,400+60,770
6 Sept 2026	1,630

Common questions about Pro Gig Academy

What is Pro Gig Academy?: Pro Gig Academy is a free Skool community for solo acoustic guitarists and singers who want to become confident solo performers, created in November 2024. It is run by Finbar Horgan, whose YouTube channel is about helping guitarists and singers get paid gigs playing cover songs.
How much does Pro Gig Academy cost?: Pro Gig Academy was free to join on Skool when last read, 6 Sept 2026; its listing showed no charge.
How many members does Pro Gig Academy have?: Pro Gig Academy lists 5,308 members, read 31 Oct 2026.
How has Pro Gig Academy's membership changed?: From 5,142 members on 24 Aug 2026, our first reading, to 5,308 on 31 Oct 2026: up 166, or 3%.
How does Pro Gig Academy compare with other music and audio communities?: Pro Gig Academy is free to join, where the median priced music and audio listing charges $14.50 a month. The niche median is 508 members. Pricing benchmarks by niche.
What else does Pro Gig Academy's seller list?: The same seller has 1 other listing we track: Top 50 Solo Gigging Setlist.
What do you get inside Pro Gig Academy?: Pro Gig Academy publishes 33 course modules, 3 courses, 2,879 posts, 4 admins. Communities with the most course content.