Member Since: 5/5/2005
Band Website: DougDoppler.com
Influences: Jeff Beck, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Neal Schon, Edward Van Halen, Jimi Hendrix,John McLaughlin, Al DiMeola, Allan Holdsworth, Ozzy, The Beatles
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* N E W S *February 2008 Update
JAMMING WITH SATCH, LI, GILBERT AND FREIDMAN
On Saturday January 19, 2008 Ibanez celebrated the 20th anniversary of the JS series and the release of "Surfing with the Alien" by putting on a private event in conjunction with the NAMM show. Following a flawless live set of the entire Surfing disc, Doug was invited by Satch to join the "Ibanez All-Stars" to take part in a memorable jam through Foxey Lady, Going Down, and Rocking in the Free World...Guitar Player Guitar Hero Interview
In the February issue of Guitar Player Magazine, Doug details some insights into the making of Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80's...Australian Guitar Magazine Interview
Doug is also featured in a 4 page story in the current issue of Australian Guitar Magazine...Premier Guitar Interview
In the current online issue of Premier Guitar you can find out how Doug recorded "Zero Gravity". This track appeared on the Guitar Masters Vol. 1 CD along with tracks from Jeff Beck, Stanley Clarke & Joe Satriani, Zakk Wylde, Steve Morse, Alan Holdsworth, John Paul Jones, and other amazing guitarists...
More news soon...
OLD NEWS
Doug Doppler, Certified Guitar Hero
Doug contributed guitar on six songs for Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80's, the latest addition to the million selling GH franchise. With over 100,000 hits on YouTube, for videos of people playing to Doug's tracks on No One Like You, Play with Me, Seventeen, Wrathchild, Ballroom Blitz, and Radar Love - check out Doug's YouTube page . You can also catch some live clips from Doug's recent US Tour supporting former Scorpion Michael Schenker...New Zealand and Australia Ibanez Clinics
Doug will be "down under" in August doing a series of clinics for Ibanez. He'll be be in Auckland Monday Aug. 6, Takapuna Tuesday Aug. 7, Wellington Aug. 8, Christchurch Aug. 9, and Sydney Aug. 18. Venues and times will be posted on shortly.EUROPEAN CLINIC TOUR, U.S. SUMMER TOUR
As noted to the right, I'm off for an Ibanez Clinic tour in Italy and the UK - sitting in the airport now! When we get back we will have a week or so at home before we head out on the Michael Schenker tour across the U.S. - hope to see you there. My latest instructional DVD "Whammy Bar Mojo" is out, and we've also just re-released my first disc, Ground Zero, both of which you can pick up at my www.Guitar411.com web site. Cheers!
European Tour April/May 2006
Doug will be touring Europe opening for Gilby Clarke (Supernova, Guns N' Roses).Whammy Bar Mojo DVD
Doug is currently shooting the next DVD in his Guitar 411 instructional
DVD series.
* P R E S S *
Guitar Player Magazine - April 2006 Magazine
Diatonic Theory and Harmony DVD Reviewed
Guitar World Magazine - March 2006
Doug Featured in "Betcha Can't Play This" column & on companion CD-Rom
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Nu Instrumetal CD
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Diatonic Theory and Harmony DVD
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OVERVIEW: "Diatonic Theory and Harmony"
What is Diatonic theory and why is it important to me as a gutiarist?
As a teacher, it has been one of my main goals to instill the same sort of knowledge into my students that people who have read music for years have. If you played the triads for the key of C Major on the piano, you would move up and down hitting every other white key in groups of 3 notes, if you were just voicing the chords 1,3,5. On the staff that would alternate between notes stacked on 3 adjacent lines and three adjacent spaces. In the act of reading that, pianists learn how triads are built because they have to read and play each note. If a guitarist sees a C Major chord, they know what shape to play and where to play it, and that is about it. My job is to give guitarists a reference point to get them up to speed by learning how to construct / disect the modes, and in turn reference key scale degree numbers like the 1,3,5 from each mode to build triad/chords. Because most guitarists read charts only (if they read any music at all), using the shapes of scales compared to the major scale is a key trick to visually breaking down the differnces between each of the 7 modes based on the major scale. In turn, once you know the differences AND simimlarities, it becomes easy to construct and deconstruct chords and figure out how they fit diatonically. I have created a number of exercises that show you systematically how break down scales into their scale degree numbers, and in turn build chords off of these numbers, and simultaneously have exercises showing you how to place triads, power chords, 7 chords, (9) chords diatonically. Additionally, the accompanying audio CD features chord progressions for each of the above types of chords and in the final segment of the DVD I outline how the chord progressions are functioning diatonically, as well as what you can play over the top. If you can't apply it, I shouldn't be teaching it!
Topics covered on Diatonic Theory and Harmony:
THE BASICS:
Note Location; Meters and Subdivisions; Open Position Chords; Barre Chords
CORE EXERCISES:
G Minor Pentatonic in 5 Patterns; Modes (2nd Finger Root and 3 Note Per String);
Triad/Chords; 7 Chords
CONSTRUCTION:
Scales (Pentatonic, Modes)
Arpeggios (Triads, 7)
Chords (Barre, Power, Triad, 7, Sus, Add9, Stacked)
CHORD PROGRESSIONS: (on both DVD and Audio CD)
Open Position; Power; Barre; Triad; 7; Add 9; Sus; Stacked
View the Video Clips Page
NOTE: This DVD has been created in NTSC format with the region set to 0.
About NTSC: As noted in this article: http://hometheater.about.com/cs/consumerresources/a/aawhosyo
urpala.htm
NTSC is the official analog video standard in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, some
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a.htm
REGION 0 or REGION ALL -- Discs are uncoded and can be played Worldwide, however,
PAL discs must be played in a PAL-compatible unit and NTSC discs must be played
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