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.

Get more educational content (such as my post-tonal ear training materials) through the Patreon shop and help support my vision to make music theory more inspiring and accessible.

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7:38

An Homage to Hans Zimmer and Interstellar (Composing Heartbeats Between Stars)

Galen DeGraf

Shared 1 week ago

1K views

8:42

The Musical Formula that’s too Viral

Galen DeGraf

Shared 1 month ago

4.3K views

2:18

How to Play a Keyboard Without Your Fingers

Galen DeGraf

Shared 1 month ago

746 views

18:55

The Meter Exercise Every Musician Should Try

Galen DeGraf

Shared 1 month ago

7.6K views

5:27

The Cutest Instruments You Never Knew About

Galen DeGraf

Shared 2 months ago

191K views

12:47

How to Compose a Rhythmic Paradox

Galen DeGraf

Shared 3 months ago

104K views

5:23

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

Galen DeGraf

Shared 5 months ago

5.7K views

1:26

The Colonial March (illustrated score)

Galen DeGraf

Shared 6 months ago

1.4K views

4:14

Identifying Themes from Two Notes

Galen DeGraf

Shared 6 months ago

1.4K views

6:42

How to Ear Train Post-tonal Trichord Set Classes

Galen DeGraf

Shared 7 months ago

3.8K views

23:53

Post-tonal Theory Explained Using Film Music

Galen DeGraf

Shared 7 months ago

12K views

6:25

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

Galen DeGraf

Shared 8 months ago

23K views

4:34

Sauron's Musical Disguises in Rings of Power

Galen DeGraf

Shared 8 months ago

92K views

7:48

Why Some Lyrics Sound Awkward (text setting)

Galen DeGraf

Shared 9 months ago

5.2K views

13:54

How to Practice Transforming Themes, Scalar Mapping

Galen DeGraf

Shared 10 months ago

317K views

1:27

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

Galen DeGraf

Shared 11 months ago

2.2K views

26:54

How to Make a Musical Theme fit any Context

Galen DeGraf

Shared 11 months ago

97K views

6:27

How to Add to Music by Taking Away from it

Galen DeGraf

Shared 1 year ago

3K views

3:48

How to Transform a Theme (fragmentation and scalar mapping demo)

Galen DeGraf

Shared 1 year ago

6.7K views

5:53

How to Transform a Theme (scalar mapping demonstration)

Galen DeGraf

Shared 1 year ago

193K views

1:01

Amazing Grace Inverted Chromatically

Galen DeGraf

Shared 1 year ago

3K views

22:40

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

Galen DeGraf

Shared 1 year ago

3.7K views

1:33

Bach, but the voices are all different meters

Galen DeGraf

Shared 1 year ago

3.6K views

23:41

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

Galen DeGraf

Shared 1 year ago

4.6K views

1:57

Mozart style Variations on Happy Birthday

Galen DeGraf

Shared 1 year ago

15K views

27:40

How to compose like Arvo Pärt, tintinnabuli style

Galen DeGraf

Shared 1 year ago

68K views

4:56

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

Galen DeGraf

Shared 1 year ago

3.9K views

1:16

Shostakovich style Prelude on Happy Birthday

Galen DeGraf

Shared 1 year ago

2.3K views

3:38

Children’s Songs, Imperial March style

Galen DeGraf

Shared 1 year ago

4.2K views

3:35

"The Cook" | IFMC Summer 2023

Galen DeGraf

Shared 1 year ago

624 views