Dom Famularo followed his dream to become one of the most exciting drummers in music today. With a bottomless reservoir of passion and enthusiasm, Famularo offers inspirational observations and commentaries on life, love, and success which have made him a sought-after motivational speaker and lecturer. Now, for the first time, he has culled the collected wisdom of his travels and experiences in one book. The Cycle of Self Empowerment is a motivational book that offers a little bit of everything. It's full of stories to make you laugh, exercises to make you think, and Dom's very own self-empowerment formula of success to guide you to your dream.

The Cycle of Self Empowerment

Arts & Photography

Famularo, Dom

Music

Alfred Music

This book addresses the common problem of proportionally unequal abilities between a drummer's dominant and weaker muscle sets in drumming technique. The strategic exercises are designed to develop the under-used muscles to cultivate a more balanced ability for controlled movement and a fluid and consistent sound. Organized for gradual strengthening through daily practice, the exercises can be used for both hands and feet.

The Weaker Side

Chamberland, Stéphane

Humor & Entertainment

Eighth-Note Rock and Beyond is your first stop for basic beats commonly used in rock music! This exercise book for beginning drummers contains popular rock beats that are broken down into clear and easy variations of eighth- and sixteenth-notes. The 145 exercises, created by renowned drummers Glenn Ceglia and Dom Famularo, guide players with comprehensive notation that specifies the counts for each measure and an MP3 CD of demonstration and play-along tracks. The book encourages use of the Moeller and free stroke techniques.

Eighth-Note Rock and Beyond: Book & Online Audio

Ceglia, Glenn

Renowned educators Dom Famularo and Joe Bergamini have teamed up to bring you a complete method for improving the ability of your feet on the drumset. Unlike many other books, Pedal Control contains extensive information about the actual pedal strokes and techniques used by some of the world's top drummers, in addition to dozens of exercises that will help you use these techniques. This book contains dozens of photographs that show the four pedal techniques discussed and the motions for various exercises. Also included is an MP3/data disc that contains over 200 tracks demonstrating nearly every example in the book, and high-quality QuickTime videos showing all the pedal stroke techniques!

Pedal Control: Achieving Speed, Control, Power, and Endurance for the Feet, Book & Online Video/Audio

Bergamini, Joe

A follow-up to the popular first volume, Open-Handed Playing, Vol. 2: A Step Beyond gives you a groundbreaking step-by-step approach to incorporating this cutting-edge style into your playing. By using linear and rudimental approaches, this book will even help a drummer who has always played with crossed hands. This is possible because the presented patterns will be familiar to both right- and left-handed players. This method also provides an incredibly creative and funky set of new tools to build the drumming vocabulary. The included CD features 8 play-along tracks. "This is an interesting and challenging book suitable for the intermediate to advanced player, regardless of their leading hand."  - DRUMMER magazine "This is a great resource that will definitely take your drumming up another notch and help untie knots and bad habits we drummers often develop. Four and a Half Stars!" DRUMscene Magazine "If you've never considered open-handed drumming before, this book offers a very strong argument for it." -Michael Dawson, Modern Drummer

Open-Handed Playing, Vol 2: A Step Beyond, Book & Online Audio

Hessler, Claus

This book will get you comfortable playing in odd time signatures. Using a simple, yet effective counting system, it will provide a method for breaking down odd meters in a way that works for you. Based on the concept introduced in Dom Famularo's best-selling book, It's Your Move, Odd Feelings presents grooves and exercises in 18 different time signatures. Divided into chapters on quarter-, eighth-, and sixteenth-note based meters, with an additional section about mixed-meter grooves, it also includes eight play-along tracks designed to really get you grooving. A multimedia disc is included that contains MP3s and Quick Time videos. The MP3s demonstrate selected examples and include the play-along tracks minus drums. The videos also highlight various examples from the book, and include demos of the play-along tracks.

Odd Feelings: A Guide to Odd-Meter Drumset Grooves, Book & CD (Wizdom Media)

Russo, Massimo

It's Your Move is about achieving maximum potential as a player. The book gathers questions that have been asked of Dom Famularo during his private teaching career for 30 years, which includes many master classes, clinics, large drum expos, and 40 years of professional playing. The included exercises are vignettes to spark fun and creativity. This book is for your hands and your feet, on the drum pad and the drumset. The title of the book means it's up to you and your desire be a better player. Dom offers the seeds of ideas, now the student must react. It is the student's choice.

It's Your Move: Motions and Emotions

Drummer/educator Joe Bergamini presents 10 exciting tracks with his Arrival: Drum Play-Along. Known for his playing in progressive rock circles, Joe provides creative groove and fill ideas for these songs, which appeared on his critically acclaimed 1996 album Arrival. The album began as an idea from co-author Dom Famularo, which led Joe to recruit 4Front guitarist Zak Rizvi to create these songs, which range from rock to reggae, ballads to double bass, funk to 12/8, and more. Beginner to advanced-level players will find lots of exciting material to sink their teeth into. These songs have been specifically designed with performances, clinics, and recitals in mind. In addition to the charts, grooves, and fills, the included MP3 disc also contains each song with drums, minus drums with click, and minus drums with no click. Using these tracks, you can simulate a recording studio environment by playing along with the click, or use the versions without click in performances and recitals.

Arrival -- Drum Play Along: Contemporary Rock, Progressive, and Funk Songs for Drummers, Book & CD (Wizdom Media)

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