Galen DeGraf - Invidious

Galen DeGraf

A channel to explore creative, practical, and fun music theory.

I am a theorist, composer, organist, drummer based in New York, with a Ph.D in music theory. I believe that animation and virtual orchestration software have extraordinary potential to enhance music pedagogy.

Making high quality videos is often very labor intensive, and, as a result, new uploads are not always so frequent.

Get more educational content (such as my post-tonal ear training materials, polyrhythm bundle, and tutorial on animating a score video) through the Patreon shop and help support my vision to make music theory more inspiring and accessible.

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2:10

Odd 4-Layer Salsa Recipes

Galen DeGraf

Shared 3 weeks ago

673 views

1:21

Practical Skills Organists Might Need

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Shared 3 weeks ago

577 views

8:47

The musical sequence that won Ludwig Göransson an Academy Award

Galen DeGraf

Shared 1 month ago

8.6K views

1:59

A Melody Over a Place It Was Never Meant To Go

Galen DeGraf

Shared 1 month ago

1.5K views

14:47

How to Compose a Classic Chord

Galen DeGraf

Shared 1 month ago

14K views

4:33

music theory sets you free

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Shared 3 months ago

1.2K views

11:25

When the composer is cleverilliant

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Shared 4 months ago

15K views

16:00

The Tastiest Most Mindbending Rhythms

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Shared 6 months ago

116K views

7:38

Interstellar Voice Leading, Heartbeats Between Stars

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Shared 10 months ago

2.3K views

8:42

Why Baby Shark was viral and the U.S. National Anthem is terrible

Galen DeGraf

Shared 11 months ago

5.2K views

2:18

How to Play a Keyboard Without Your Fingers

Galen DeGraf

Shared 11 months ago

1.2K views

18:55

Adapting Music from one Meter to Another (Active Analysis)

Galen DeGraf

Shared 11 months ago

11K views

5:27

The Cutest Instruments You Never Knew About

Galen DeGraf

Shared 1 year ago

464K views

12:47

How to Compose a Rhythmic Paradox

Galen DeGraf

Shared 1 year ago

115K views

5:23

How to Make Music Notation Better (score videos, custom backgrounds, cursor, scrolling)

Galen DeGraf

Shared 1 year ago

12K views

1:26

The Colonial March (illustrated score)

Galen DeGraf

Shared 1 year ago

1.7K views

4:14

Identifying Themes from Two Notes

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Shared 1 year ago

1.6K views

6:42

How to Ear Train Post-tonal Trichord Set Classes

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Shared 1 year ago

4.7K views

23:53

Post-tonal Theory Explained Using Film Music

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Shared 1 year ago

15K views

6:25

Transforming a Theme, Lord of the Rings style (scalar mapping demonstration)

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Shared 1 year ago

26K views

4:34

Sauron's Musical Disguises in Rings of Power

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Shared 1 year ago

96K views

7:48

Why Some Lyrics Sound Awkward (text setting)

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Shared 1 year ago

5.6K views

13:54

How to Practice Transforming Themes, Scalar Mapping

Galen DeGraf

Shared 1 year ago

352K views

1:27

Game of Thrones style Happy Birthday (for Ramin Djawadi's 50th birthday)

Galen DeGraf

Shared 1 year ago

2.6K views

26:54

How to Make a Musical Theme fit any Context

Galen DeGraf

Shared 1 year ago

106K views

6:27

How to Add to Music by Taking Away from it

Galen DeGraf

Shared 1 year ago

3.3K views

3:48

Transforming a Theme, Game of Thrones style (fragmentation and scalar mapping demonstration)

Galen DeGraf

Shared 1 year ago

7.7K views

5:53

How to Transform a Theme (scalar mapping demonstration)

Galen DeGraf

Shared 1 year ago

201K views

1:01

Amazing Grace Inverted Chromatically

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Shared 1 year ago

3.2K views

22:40

McCreary’s Rings of Power changes how you’ll hear Howard Shore’s Lord of the Rings

Galen DeGraf

Shared 2 years ago

4K views

1:33

Bach, but the voices are all different meters

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Shared 2 years ago

4.2K views

23:41

Musical Continuity Without Quotation (Rings of Power, Lord of the Rings)

Galen DeGraf

Shared 2 years ago

5.1K views

1:57

Mozart style Variations on Happy Birthday

Galen DeGraf

Shared 2 years ago

23K views

27:40

How to compose like Arvo Pärt, tintinnabuli style

Galen DeGraf

Shared 2 years ago

81K views

4:56

Bach im Spiegel: Cello Suite no. 1 in the style of Arvo Pärt

Galen DeGraf

Shared 2 years ago

4.8K views

1:16

Shostakovich style Prelude on Happy Birthday

Galen DeGraf

Shared 2 years ago

2.7K views

3:38

Children’s Songs, Imperial March style

Galen DeGraf

Shared 2 years ago

4.9K views

3:35

"The Cook" | IFMC Summer 2023

Galen DeGraf

Shared 2 years ago

681 views

19:25

How to Compose in Mozart’s Style

Galen DeGraf

Shared 2 years ago

12K views

3:32

Animated chase scene (Tad Jones 3) | Scorelive 2023

Galen DeGraf

Shared 2 years ago

84K views

2:51

Philip Glass style Happy Birthday

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Shared 3 years ago

3.7K views

1:38

Perfect Projectile Pacifier Practicing Polyrhythms (Glassworks but 5:3 in 6/8)

Galen DeGraf

Shared 7 years ago

1.4K views