0:00:00.501,0:00:02.731 [Jimmy][br]In this movie Whiplash you play a young 0:00:02.731,0:00:05.830 drummer in the film and [br]it has to be really 0:00:05.830,0:00:07.033 you really playing. 0:00:07.033,0:00:09.150 [Miles][br]Oh yeah I mean I started playing when 0:00:09.150,0:00:11.549 I was fifteen, I got a drum set 0:00:11.549,0:00:12.837 because I thought, you know 0:00:12.837,0:00:14.987 I played piano and saxaphone[br]and that was cool 0:00:14.987,0:00:16.157 but as I started getting 0:00:16.157,0:00:19.748 older I was like oh man the drummers[br]they're the coolest guys, Quest knows. 0:00:19.748,0:00:21.001 [cheering] 0:00:21.001,0:00:21.771 Just like, 0:00:21.771,0:00:23.633 you just hanging back and like you know 0:00:23.633,0:00:26.148 and drummers your just your in the pocket 0:00:26.148,0:00:28.483 playing the beat and so yeah I just asked 0:00:28.483,0:00:30.046 for a drum kit, 0:00:30.046,0:00:34.056 you have a picture right there of.. [br]>>There's Miles at 15. 0:00:34.056,0:00:36.520 >>I was a young looking fifteen I mean 0:00:36.520,0:00:38.019 I look like a meerkat 0:00:38.019,0:00:39.657 >>[laughter] A meerkat poking 0:00:39.657,0:00:41.520 >>popping up behind that giant drum set 0:00:41.520,0:00:42.883 >>Yeah 0:00:42.883,0:00:44.885 I guess my dad, cause it comes in pieces 0:00:44.885,0:00:46.840 and so my dad was assembling it the night 0:00:46.840,0:00:48.899 before the toms are actually reversed 0:00:48.899,0:00:51.100 and the high hat was all messed up but my 0:00:51.100,0:00:52.883 parents were always very... 0:00:52.883,0:00:54.691 my mom wanted all of her kids to play 0:00:54.691,0:00:56.967 music and my house was constantly filled 0:00:56.967,0:00:58.912 with music and kind of controlled chaos 0:00:58.912,0:00:59.876 >>Oh really? 0:00:59.876,0:01:02.793 >>Yeah I think she wanted a Partridge[br]family kind of a thing. 0:01:02.793,0:01:03.827 Dead serious. 0:01:03.827,0:01:04.868 And then my dad, 0:01:04.868,0:01:06.548 oh yeah I forgot, but my dad, 0:01:06.548,0:01:08.382 I started playing in bands and stuff, 0:01:08.382,0:01:10.712 you know I played in a band. 0:01:10.712,0:01:12.801 Dad I had no idea you played an instrument 0:01:12.801,0:01:14.100 what did you play? 0:01:14.100,0:01:15.699 I played a rock tambourine 0:01:15.699,0:01:17.267 [laughter] 0:01:17.267,0:01:20.800 He's like but nobody really wanted to be[br]in a band with a rock tambourine. 0:01:20.800,0:01:24.213 >>Rock tambourine yeah, that' s pretty[br]>>When you start with that 0:01:24.213,0:01:26.432 >>You got to really get into it 0:01:26.432,0:01:29.611 that's rock tambourine time. 0:01:29.611,0:01:31.227 >>what was the name of his band? 0:01:31.227,0:01:32.528 [laughter] 0:01:32.528,0:01:35.737 >>Yeah! [cheering] yeah boom.[br]>>Go to our, Frank. 0:01:35.737,0:01:37.285 Frank give them a little. 0:01:37.285,0:01:41.325 [rock tambourine playing] 0:01:41.325,0:01:43.008 That's rock tambourine. 0:01:43.698,0:01:46.598 I watched this film and I couldn't 0:01:46.598,0:01:48.660 believe it I said, there's no way it's 0:01:48.660,0:01:50.481 a stunt double or something. 0:01:50.481,0:01:53.009 You were really playing it did you have[br]to practice? 0:01:53.009,0:01:55.408 >>Yeah it was insane you know I played 0:01:55.408,0:01:57.383 drums you know for many years 0:01:57.383,0:02:00.149 I played kinda, I say like Florida rock 0:02:00.149,0:02:01.365 and roll. 0:02:01.365,0:02:03.150 >>Leonard Skinner? 0:02:03.150,0:02:05.465 >>Literally we're covering like Creed at 0:02:05.465,0:02:06.438 some point. 0:02:06.438,0:02:07.195 >>Yeah! 0:02:07.195,0:02:08.551 >>Puddle of mud and just so 0:02:08.551,0:02:09.702 >>[inaudible singing] 0:02:09.702,0:02:11.398 >>Yeah yeah yeah 0:02:12.674,0:02:15.331 But you do an Eddie Vedder muffin man? 0:02:15.331,0:02:17.171 Right?[br]>>[laughing] 0:02:17.171,0:02:19.128 We were talking about that the other day. 0:02:19.128,0:02:20.120 >>No 0:02:20.120,0:02:21.584 >>So funny 0:02:21.584,0:02:22.818 [laughter] 0:02:22.818,0:02:24.723 >>Sorry we're geeking out 0:02:24.723,0:02:26.298 you were saying you played Creed. 0:02:26.298,0:02:28.600 >>Yeah so I played, played Creed 0:02:28.600,0:02:30.099 >>Did you teach yourself? 0:02:30.099,0:02:31.658 >>Yeah I just kinda picked it up 0:02:31.658,0:02:33.614 and every other instrument I got lessons 0:02:33.614,0:02:35.554 like piano I got lessons you know 0:02:35.554,0:02:36.947 saxophone I got lessons but 0:02:36.947,0:02:38.678 drums I felt like I just kinda had a 0:02:38.678,0:02:41.057 natural knack for it and I picked it up 0:02:41.057,0:02:42.681 pretty quick but jazz drumming 0:02:42.681,0:02:44.970 is it's own, it's own animal and 0:02:44.970,0:02:47.548 every I always felt like I was coming in.. 0:02:47.548,0:02:49.866 you're coming in early just because the 0:02:49.866,0:02:51.537 timing of everything and these jazz 0:02:51.537,0:02:53.115 drummers that I was watching like 0:02:53.115,0:02:55.271 Joe Jones and Buddy Rich I mean just such 0:02:55.271,0:02:57.497 a level of percussion skill I mean 0:02:57.497,0:02:59.062 really kind of virtuoso. 0:02:59.062,0:03:00.884 >>Did you have to hold it differently? 0:03:00.884,0:03:02.891 >>I mean that's the thing, the fundamental 0:03:02.891,0:03:04.936 thing of holding a stick is differently. 0:03:04.936,0:03:05.868 So instead of kinda 0:03:05.868,0:03:08.521 this more vertical hittin with it, [br]it's more of a flick 0:03:08.521,0:03:10.243 you're moving around the kit 0:03:10.243,0:03:12.080 and it's just a whole different... 0:03:12.080,0:03:13.325 It's a different thing. 0:03:13.325,0:03:14.879 I felt very, you know, 0:03:14.879,0:03:16.789 bad at it, but it's one of those things 0:03:16.789,0:03:19.846 where we you know through hours practice I 0:03:19.846,0:03:22.396 kinda got to a point where I felt 0:03:22.396,0:03:23.981 pretty good about it. 0:03:23.981,0:03:26.480 But jazz is like insane.