Drum Community Mourns The Loss Of ‘drumming’s Global Ambassador’, Dom Famularo, Who Has Passed Away Aged 70

The drumming neighborhood is mourning the lack of Don Famularo — musician, educator, and motivational speaker, who gave up the ghost on 27 September elderly 70, following a long fight with pancreatic most cancers.

Identified to many as Drumming’s World Ambassador, Dom Famularo started his skilled occupation in his teenagers, and, as a Lengthy Island local, soaked-up inspiration from looking at the likes of Friend Wealthy, Elvin Jones, Tony Williams and extra carry out first-hand. 

Dom went on to review underneath one of the most international’s biggest pioneering drum lecturers together with Joe Morello, Jim Chapin and Ted Reed, and far of Dom’s existence’s paintings centred round passing at the wisdom he won from such greats.

As a drummer, Dom Famularo carried out with artists together with BB King and the Friend Wealthy Giant Band, but it surely was once educating that noticed Dom offered to scholars and audiences around the globe. He delivered numerous drum clinics international — together with changing into the primary western drummer to ship a drum masterclass in — helped instigate Sabian’s Schooling Community, and thru his personal non-public classes, taught many 1000’s of drummers and drum lecturers to play.

In later years, Dom changed into one of the most founders of The Classes Panel; a web based useful resource designed to lend a hand musicians broaden their careers via recommendation at the industry and taking part in facet. The Classes panel YouTube channel options many long-form video interviews from world-class musicians the place Dom’s easy-going nature and data of his craft lend a hand to ship helpful perception into forging a occupation.

In 2019, Dom headed to the arena’s biggest on-line drum lesson website online, Drumeo, the place he delivered an hour-long masterclass. His pleasant, bombastic enthusiasm propelled Drumeo’s ‘international Happiest Drummer Performs Eye of the Tiger’ excerpt to over 3.5 million perspectives, bringing Dom’s distinctive character to a complete new technology of drummers.

As the scoop of Dom’s demise broke, drummers and drum manufacturers took to social media to honour Drumming’s World Ambassador. Dom is survived by way of his spouse and 3 sons.