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Galen DeGraf @UCKSlGePtIUECJupzsiMn7qw@youtube.com

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A channel to explore creative, practical, and fun music theo


07:38
An Homage to Hans Zimmer and Interstellar (Composing Heartbeats Between Stars)
08:42
The Musical Formula that’s too Viral
02:18
How to Play a Keyboard Without Your Fingers
18:55
The Meter Exercise Every Musician Should Try
05:27
The Cutest Instruments You Never Knew About
12:47
How to Compose a Rhythmic Paradox
05:23
How to Make Music Notation Better (score videos, custom backgrounds, cursor, scrolling)
01:26
The Colonial March (illustrated score)
04:14
Identifying Themes from Two Notes
06:42
How to Ear Train Post-tonal Trichord Set Classes
23:53
Post-tonal Theory Explained Using Film Music
06:25
Transforming a Theme, Lord of the Rings style (scalar mapping demonstration)
04:34
Sauron's Musical Disguises in Rings of Power
07:48
Why Some Lyrics Sound Awkward (text setting)
13:54
How to Practice Transforming Themes, Scalar Mapping
01:27
Game of Thrones style Happy Birthday (for Ramin Djawadi's 50th birthday)
26:54
How to Make a Musical Theme fit any Context
06:27
How to Add to Music by Taking Away from it
03:48
How to Transform a Theme (fragmentation and scalar mapping demo)
05:53
How to Transform a Theme (scalar mapping demonstration)
01:01
Amazing Grace Inverted Chromatically
22:40
McCreary’s Rings of Power changes how you’ll hear Howard Shore’s Lord of the Rings
01:33
Bach, but the voices are all different meters
23:41
Musical Continuity Without Quotation (Rings of Power, Lord of the Rings)
01:57
Mozart style Variations on Happy Birthday
27:40
How to compose like Arvo Pärt, tintinnabuli style
04:56
Bach im Spiegel: Cello Suite no. 1 in the style of Arvo Pärt
01:16
Shostakovich style Prelude on Happy Birthday
03:38
Children’s Songs, Imperial March style
03:35
"The Cook" | IFMC Summer 2023
19:25
How to Compose in Mozart’s Style
03:32
Animated chase scene (Tad Jones 3) | Scorelive 2023
02:51
Philip Glass style Happy Birthday
01:38
Perfect Projectile Pacifier Practicing Polyrhythms (Glassworks but 5:3 in 6/8)