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Playing both sides

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Dom Famularo
Dom Famularo

Dom Famularo is a world renowned educator, motivator, and performer unlike any other.
Mr. Famularo has performed his style of powerful and masterful drumming all over the world. He was a special guest performer at the first-ever Buddy Rich Tribute Concert, an event which he helped organize. Mr. Famularo is a primary attraction at star-studded drumming events such as the Koblenz International Drummer Meeting in Germany, the Florida Drum Expo, the Paris Music Show, the massive Drummers Day in Australia, the Heartbeat World Rhythm spectacle for Canadian TV, and the Montreal Drumfest.
Anywhere there is an important drumming event throughout the world, it is a good possibility that Mr. Famularo is there to perform or has helped organize it.
Mr. Famularo continues to educate, motivate and influence people everywhere he goes.
Mr. Famularo promotes, teaches and plays in an open handed style. He also flawlessly executes the free stroke, German, French and American matched grip, the Moeller system, fingers and traditional grip.

Foot techniques include heel up, heel down and everything in between!

Mr. Famularo has mastered just about every hand and foot technique that exists. Not only can he demonstrate these styles...Mr. Famularo can and does effortlessly apply them to his eye-popping performances!

His continual up-beat and positive approach to every aspect of life has influenced thousands.
Mr. Famularo's contributions to the drumming community and to the world are priceless.

You may visit Mr. Famularo's website HERE

I wish to thank Mr. Famularo for giving me permission to add him to my site.
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Steve Barone

Steve Barone

age: 27

location: Erie, Pa, USA

playing experience: 18+ years

teaching experience: 5 years

current band: Spooner

www.myspace.com/spoonerband

 

I have been playing drums and percussion since age 9. I played in the percussion section through grade school. While attending General McLane High School in Edinboro Pa, I studied jazz under the direction of John Marszalek and played tenors for 3 years in marching band, working with instructors Joe Salorino and the late Mark Marchant. I got my first "real" drumset at age 12, and played in a variety of bands with many of my peers.

 In 1999 I joined Frog Tree Gorge Band after the original drummer left for college. To collaborate and write our own songs, being influenced by all the music we liked was exciting. We started performing more frequently and I gained a wealth of knowledge about the music business and countless hours of stage experience.

 My current band Spooner formed in 2004. 

 "The twenty-something quintet draw their inspiration from the fountains of the last four decades. This radical ecclecticism makes for an unforseen musical melting pot with equal parts funk, folk, math-rock, progressive, fusion, and grunge. Yet, the final product reflects a strange melodic sensibility more at home in the early 70s than these strange days we live in."  

 In the past few years, we have played all over the Lake Erie region and have been nominated for the RockErie.com Awards in the "best jam band" category.

 I currently teach at World Of Music in Erie Pa, and I also instruct and write for the drum line at General McLane High School, working alongside the same people who taught me years ago.

 Like many others, my inspiration for playing a symmetrical drum set was Bill Bruford. I liked the idea of a center hi hat, but the configuration of the toms is borrowed from that of a set of marching tenors. I am naturally right handed, but I try to play as ambidextrously as possible. Knowing that my left side may never catch up with my right remains frustrating, but I try do do something new every time I sit down to play. That type of constant challenge is really what drives not only my playing, but my writing and teaching as well.  And it keeps getting more fun!
Steve Barone
Steve Barone
Steve Barone
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