Doug Helvering
Welcome to the official YouTube channel of Composer/Educator Dr. R. Douglas Helvering, curator of The Daily Doug: a Music Analysis and Education Series.
On here you can also find my:
• Original Compositions 🎶
• Meditative Improvisations 🎹
• Light-hearted Cooking & Personal Content 👨🍳
ABOUT ME:
Dr. Helvering has degrees from the University of Kansas, Westminster Choir College and the University of Nebraska-Omaha. He served as Adjunct Associate Professor at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, NJ for 10 years and has served as Music Minister at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in Princeton Junction, NJ since 2009. His music has found wide acclaim by performers, scholars, and audiences around the world and has been featured at prestigious venues worldwide including the historic Carnegie Hall.
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Doug Helvering
This choral motet that I composed just celebrated it's 8th anniversary! This is a recording of the premiere. :)
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Doug Helvering
We're offering a big 20% sale that is good through the end of the year on all tiers of our Patreon site. We have over 1000 active members, and there's over 100 full album analyses, dozens of community-curated countdown videos, score analysis videos, and much more. Membership also includes access to our private Discord Server! Save extra with an annual membership! www.patreon.com/doughelvering
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Doug Helvering
I'm teaching some online classes in the new year! If you'd like to broaden your musical knowledge in an affirming environment, I encourage you to enroll! We meet on Saturdays in January and February 2026. The course is $150. Email itsthedailydoug@gmail.com to enroll and get more information!
#dailydoug #musicclass #learnmusic #musicianship #musictheory #musictheorylessons #musictheoryclass
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I'm teaching some online classes in the new year! If you'd like to broaden your musical knowledge in an affirming environment, I encourage you to enroll! In Exploring Chromaticism, we'll dive deep into the ways that we 'season' our music. We meet on Wednesdays in January and February 2026. The course is $150. Email itsthedailydoug@gmail.com to enroll and get more information!
#dailydoug #musicclass #learnmusic #musicianship #musictheory #musictheorylessons #musictheoryclass
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Doug Helvering
Hello friends! I am sorry to report that we've run into some technical issues with today's planned video of my analysis of and reaction to Led Zeppelin II side 1. We will bring this video to you next Friday.
In the meantime, please check out this **playlist of all of my reactions to Led Zeppelin** and please share it with the Led Zeppelin fans in your life!: bit.ly/43r4kiw
Thank you all for your ongoing support, I appreciate you always.
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Doug Helvering
I'm happy to now be able to share my video from Friday without any censorship. You can now view Big Big Train's video to The Artist embedded as I react to it. AND...check out these other great bands: Enoch Root, Temic, Astroweed, Fractal, BT, & Larkin Poe!
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Doug Helvering
Tonight’s meditation and sleep music: https://youtu.be/1bPAzXU_hjw?si=YlJBD...
Listening to this helps me calm my mind. I hope it helps you as well. ❤️
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Big Big Train just teased some new music!!! Very intriguing!
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Doug Helvering
Hello dear friends! Meg here again. Doug was hoping to be able to do a live stream today, but is still recovering from his terrible bout of norovirus, and is also still working to recover from his latest round of debilitating lower back muscle spasms. He is starting to feel better, and was hoping to be able to hang out with you all today, but he is not yet feeling well enough. He asked me to thank you all for your support and kind words as he is dealing with these health issues, and to share with you all that he misses spending time with The Daily Doug community and is eager to get back to making videos and interacting with you all. ❤️
In the meantime, since Doug has not been able to put out videos in these recent days, we are really hurting for views here on Doug’s YouTube channel. We’re hoping that you all will please help bring some much needed views by watching (or re-watching) some of Doug’s all time favorite Daily Doug videos:
Doug’s Dozen Playlist: bit.ly/3J5RAGU
Another Doug’s Dozen Playlist: bit.ly/4nFi1SV
Please check out the above playlists from Doug, and please share them with friends/family/colleagues! 🙏🫂❤️
We love this community and are so thankful for all of you! Much love, friends ❤️
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Doug Helvering
Hello friends, this is Meg, writing on behalf of Doug. Doug is very sick today, we’re pretty sure it’s norovirus. So, there will not be a new video from him today.
Instead, Doug has asked me to share with y’all one of his all time favorite Daily Doug videos: Pink Floyd’s epic “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” 💖✨ Please give it a watch (or a re-watch for those of you who have already seen it) and enjoy, and please send some healing energy and vibes to Doug as you’re able to. We would surely appreciate it! 🙏🥹🫂💕
Video link: https://youtu.be/1bmBbKFVRz4
Also, please let us know in the comments, what is your all time favorite Daily Doug video?
Much love, friends, and thank you so much for your continued support. We are grateful for you all every single day. ❤️❤️
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