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Dom Famularo is a professional drummer

Drummer

A drummer is a musician who is capable of playing drums, which includes but is not limited to a drum kit and accessory based hardware which includes an assortment of pedals and standing support mechanisms, marching percussion and/or any musical instrument that is struck within the context of a...

, drum teacher, author, clinician and motivational speaker.

Biography

Dom Famularo is a world-renowned drummer, drum teacher, author, clinician and motivational speaker from Long Island, New York. He started playing when he was 11 and became a professional at the age of 12. Dom began his career as a performing jazz drummer. He studied under some of the greatest drummers of the 20th century, including Jim Chapin

Jim Chapin

James Forbes "Jim" Chapin was an American jazz drummer and the author of popular texts on jazz drumming, the first two volumes of which are Advanced Techniques for the Modern Drummer, Vol. I, and Advanced Techniques for the Modern Drummer, Vol...

, and Joe Morello

Joe Morello

Joseph Albert Morello was a jazz drummer best known for his 12½-year stint with The Dave Brubeck Quartet. He was frequently noted for playing in the unusual time signatures employed by that group in such pieces as "Take Five" and "Blue Rondo à la Turk"...

. With a passion for jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

and inspiring others, he began a successful drum teaching career, becoming one of the most sought-after clinicians of his time. Some of the most successful jazz and rock drummers have had instruction from Dom.

He has been called Drumming's Global Ambassador due to the many places he visits and vast number of people that hear him speak each year.
Dom is known for his open handed playing

Open handed playing

Open-handed playing refers to a method of playing drumset without crossing the hands when playing the hi-hat and snare drum simultaneously as opposed to the more traditional way of playing drums which features crossed hands as the basic playing position...

style. He is also the first western drummer to perform clinics in China.

He has presented masterclasses and clinics around the globe in United States, Canada, Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Peru, England, Ireland, Scotland, France, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg, Austria, Switzerland, Portugal, Spain, Norway, Sweden, Poland, Serbia, Greece, Italy, Hungary, Costa Rica, Honduras, Puerto Rico, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Turkey, Israel, Canary Islands and South Africa.

He has directed and emceed major drumming expos around the world, and has been one of drumming' s most sought-after private instructors for over 30 years. He has taught many of today's leading drummers, and students regularly fly in from around the globe for intensive study with Dom. Dom acts as Education Director and consultant for several leading drum companies.

Dom uses Mapex Drums

Mapex Drums

Mapex Drums is a drum brand manufactured by KHS Musical Instruments Company of Taiwan. Mapex has been in the drum making industry for over 18 years.-Products:...

, Sabian Cymbals and Vic Firth

Vic Firth

Vic Firth is an American musician and is the founder of Vic Firth Company , a percussion stick and mallet manufacturing company that he started in 1963. The company bills itself as the world's largest manufacturer of drum sticks and mallets...

sticks, and Evans drum heads. He has several signature series sticks by Vic Firth. Famularo has shared the stage with many famous musicians—some include Steve Gadd

Steve Gadd

Steve Gadd is an American session and studio drummer, notable for his work with popular musicians from a wide range of genres.-Biography:...

, Terry Bozzio

Terry Bozzio

Terry John Bozzio is an American drummer best known for his work with Missing Persons and Frank Zappa.-Biography:Terry Bozzio was born December 27, 1950 in San Francisco, California. He started at age 6 playing makeshift drum sets. At the age of 13 he saw The Beatles premier performance on The Ed...

, B.B. King, Thomas Lang

Thomas Lang

Thomas Lang is an Austrian drummer, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and record producer. He is the founding member of the Los Angeles-based progressive/avant garde metal trio, stOrk.Lang took up drumming at the age of 5...

, Tommy Igoe, Will Calhoun

Will Calhoun

Will Calhoun is an American drummer, who graduated with honors from Berklee College of Music.-Career:...

and Chad Smith

Chad Smith

Chad Smith is an American musician, best known as the longtime and current drummer of Red Hot Chili Peppers. Smith is also the drummer of the hard rock supergroup Chickenfoot which includes Sammy Hagar, Joe Satriani, and Michael Anthony, former Deep Purple vocalist Glenn Hughes' backing band and...

. He is also a motivational speaker and the author of "Cycle of Self-Empowerment."

Dom was voted Best Clinician by the readers of Modern Drummer magazine in 2005 and 2006, and by the readers of DRUM! in 2006. He is also the author of It's Your Move and The Cycle of Self-Empowerment, and co-author of The Weaker Side (with Stephane Chamberland), Open-Handed Playing (with Claus Hessler), Eighth-Note Rock and Beyond (with Glenn Ceglia) and Pedal Control (with Joe Bergamini and Stephane Chamberland).

He is involved in developing online teaching methods using websites such as www.mlc-academy.com. He resides on Long Island

Long Island

Long Island is an island located in the southeast part of the U.S. state of New York, just east of Manhattan. Stretching northeast into the Atlantic Ocean, Long Island contains four counties, two of which are boroughs of New York City , and two of which are mainly suburban...

, New York

New York

New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

with his wife and 3 sons. He's often been called the Tony Robbins or Gandhi of the drum industry.

Wizdom Drumshed Schools Growing Around the World!
Dom had created the first Wizdom Drumshed School in the world in Long Island (NY) many years ago. "Wizdom" is a mix of two words, wizard and Dom (For Dom Famularo). Put the two words together and you get Wizdom. These schools are taking place all around the world in collaboration with Dom to ensure that the quality of the studios and the teaching process is high class. The approach is unique and the result is amazing. In the U.S. is Steven Crammer's Drumshed, in Canada is Stephane Chamberland's Drumshed and in France is Rob Hiron's Drumshed. (See them all at http://www.domfamularo.com/wizdom-drumshed-schools.html)

Dom Famularo's current drumkit setup

- Mapex Orion Drums and Sabian
  Sabian (company)
  Sabian is a Canadian cymbal designer and manufacturer. It is a leading manufacturer of cymbals along with other top companies such as Zildjian, Paiste, and Meinl.-History:...
  
  Cymbals:
- Mapex Drums - Any Finish
- 10x9" Tom
- 12x10" Tom
- 14x14" Floor Tom
- 16x16" Floor Tom
- 22x18" Bass Drum
- 14x5.5" Mapex
  Mapex Drums
  Mapex Drums is a drum brand manufactured by KHS Musical Instruments Company of Taiwan. Mapex has been in the drum making industry for over 18 years.-Products:...
  
  Snare Drum
- 13" HHX Hi-Hats (mounted under ride & china)
- 14" HHX Hi-Hats
- 20" HHX Ride
- 21" HHX Ride
- 17" HHX Crash
- 18" HHX Crash
- 18" HHX China
- 20" HHX China
- 12" HHX Splash
- 10" HHX Splash

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