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Santiago Dobles

Santiago Dobles is a Venezuelan, guitarist, songwriter, producer and son of Venezuelan symphonic composer Gustavo Dobles. He is best known as the founding member of tech-prog-fusion metal band [Aghora (band)]. He has produced with Dan Escauriza every Aghora ablum to date.

Biography

Santiago Dobles was born in Caracas, Venezuela. He started playing guitar at age 11[1]. As a teenager, he studied under Jae Valentine and Robin Stone[2]. At age 18 he attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, majoring in composition, film scoring and guitar. While at Berklee, he studied fusion guitar under the guidance of Jon Finn, Mark White, Mashi Hasu, & Bruce Bartlett. Outside of Berklee, he studied guitar with Paul Masvidal (of Death (band) and Cynic (band) fame), Paul Aldanee and through correspondence with Derek Taylor (Shrapnel recording artist) and Derryl Gabel. He also studied sound engineering at Miami Dade Community College. Santiago practices yoga, Qi Gong and Pencak Silat (teaching the latter two)[3].

Santiago also released an instructional guitar "Chops from Hell" DVD entitled "Shut up and Play".[4]

Musical Style

Santiago Dobles is known for his use of Bb Tuning, oriental scales, rapid alternate picking and sweep picked legato arpeggios that can cover all seven strings in certain runs. A good example would be from "Garuda", off of their 2006 album Formless, where Santiago repeatedly plays a lick starting on the twelfth fret of the high Eb string and ending in an open (low) Bb string rhythm, a lick that spans across three octaves and a fourth. He also ends the song with a pair sweep picked legato arpeggios that cover all seven strings of his guitar.

Equipment

Discography

  • With Aghora:

Aghora (album) (2000) Transitions (2006) Formless (2006) TBA - (201?)

  • Guest Appearances:

The Absence - Riders of the Plague guitars on track 3 (2007)

See also

References

  1. ^ http://www.conklinguitars.com/artists_santiago_dobles.html
  2. ^ http://www.conklinguitars.com/artists_santiago_dobles.html
  3. ^ http://www.conklinguitars.com/artists_santiago_dobles.html
  4. ^ http://www.youtube.com/user/silatyogi
  5. ^ http://www.aghora.org/wst_page15.html
  6. ^ http://www.aghora.org/wst_page15.html
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