Flub Drums: Why I Dislike Them

Intro Cadence - “False Hype” by EMC
Background Cadence - “White Boy Smooth” by EMC

Video Sources:

[EMCproductions]

Apparently I misinterpreted the sports analogy 🤦
He's saying: Good Flub Drummer = JV Pitcher, and Bad Snare/Tenor/Bass Drummer = Varsity Outfield.
...but wouldn't the flubs be on the varsity team? IDK. Sports are confusing.
EDIT - I *flubbed the sports analogy.

[SeanLaMontagne]

Ah Flubs. The "you're not good enough for snare, but not big enough for bottom bass, and the pit tech would kill me if I dumped you on him" section.

I feel like everyone says "they're to train you for the harder drums" and then only write quarter notes and half note impacts.

[lightningmcqueenfanpage]

My schools had a flub line once, because the directors kid wanted to be on snare but wasn’t good enough so he made a whole other line for him.

[anthonyowens]

What the kid actually said, was that he would rather be the star of the B team instead of an insignificant player on the A team. The drumline version of this is not between the A drumline and B drumline, but it is between snare/tenor/bass(the A team) and flubs(the B team). He is saying he would rather be an awesome flubs player, than a crappy snare/tenor/bass player.

[Finetales]

I legit didn't know flub drums were a real thing until this video lol

[psychedahlia]

When he said "instead of just going to pit" with such disgust in his voice... That hurts man.

[theredhun]

These are 3 of the best high school bands in/around Indianapolis. They have fully developed recruiting and training programs.

[cadenhall]

I think the flubs are a good tool for tone and accents.just like any drum it's just a different sound. but if I was on a flub line I would definitely be embarrassed.

[amazngdrummr]

Your opinion is biased, good sir. YOU'VE NEVER EVEN MARCHED FLUBS!!!!

[JMako-]

I have never marched flubs but I have played the flubs in our indoor percussion but they actually called them impact drums when I was in 8th grade and now I'm a junior as center snare and battery section leader.

[johnkosch]

I’ve actually never heard these called flubs— the term I’m familiar with is “impact drums, ” which is a lot sexier than, you know... “flub.” It helps to have them not only when you have a big line, but a greater disparity in proficiency between members of the line, I.e. someone who would be bored with your current bass crew but that would lag behind those currently playing snare and tenors

[Amadea]

3:05 Bassdrums *inserts picture of his beloved cowbell*

[joseph-]

I’m a sophomore at a big high school and I wish we had a flub line. I want to be in drumline, but keep getting put in pit. If I was on flubs, I would at least learn how to march with a drum in and help develop those skills.

[acousticfoam]

my school used flubs one year, and my band director called them "mono-tenors" he would get pretty annoyed when people called them flubs.

[GrandpaLui]

0:16 yoo not to alarm you but there are ghosts behind you in the recording of this lick

[jacobhanekamp]

That school that has 5000 students has more students than the 2 high schools in my city

[georgefritze]

President: *Is elected*
EMC: FLUB DRUMS

[DouglasStevens]

At my highschool we just called it the tom line. Since we had a fairly large drumline we would have a ton line in the fall but in the winter we had two groups so we did not use toms. If you didn't make the varsity group then you went and played in the JV group. That way everyone can play the instrument they want to get better at regardless of skill. That worked out very well for us and it helped the group improve a ton over the years since we started doing that. So for any educators reading this, if you have the members to make this work I highly encourage going for it

[sujanshadrak]

i just finished freshman year marching flubs, our school's flubs (or as we call them toms) play the same music as the snare except maybe a few rimshots taken out and some rolls that the snares need to have clean and our book is fairly hard so I think that flubs is a great way to get younger kids ready for snare in the years to come. We played basically everything the snares play. and our drums were actual parts of old tenors not just sawed off.

[russellcratic]

This has always been interesting to me. Especially because single tenors (Just called tenor by most) in the HBCU and Pipe Band world are very important. While in the corp styled world it’s just to help build chops to move on to another part of the section. I would love to see a comparison from Eric about this.