[Jimmy] In this movie Whiplash you play a young
drummer in the film and it has to be really
you really playing.
[Miles] Oh yeah I mean I started playing when
I was fifteen, I got a drum set
because I thought, you know
I played piano and saxaphone and that was cool
but as I started getting
older I was like oh man the drummers they're the coolest guys, Quest knows.
[cheering]
Just like,
you just hanging back and like you know
and drummers your just your in the pocket
playing the beat and so yeah I just asked
for a drum kit,
you have a picture right there of.. >>There's Miles at 15.
>>I was a young looking fifteen I mean
I look like a meerkat
>>[laughter] A meerkat poking
>>popping up behind that giant drum set
>>Yeah
I guess my dad, cause it comes in pieces
and so my dad was assembling it the night
before the toms are actually reversed
and the high hat was all messed up but my
parents were always very...
my mom wanted all of her kids to play
music and my house was constantly filled
with music and kind of controlled chaos
>>Oh really?
>>Yeah I think she wanted a Partridge family kind of a thing.
Dead serious.
And then my dad,
oh yeah I forgot, but my dad,
I started playing in bands and stuff,
you know I played in a band.
Dad I had no idea you played an instrument
what did you play?
I played a rock tambourine
[laughter]
He's like but nobody really wanted to be in a band with a rock tambourine.
>>Rock tambourine yeah, that' s pretty >>When you start with that
>>You got to really get into it
that's rock tambourine time.
>>what was the name of his band?
[laughter]
>>Yeah! [cheering] yeah boom. >>Go to our, Frank.
Frank give them a little.
[rock tambourine playing]
That's rock tambourine.
I watched this film and I couldn't
believe it I said, there's no way it's
a stunt double or something.
You were really playing it did you have to practice?
>>Yeah it was insane you know I played
drums you know for many years
I played kinda, I say like Florida rock
and roll.
>>Leonard Skinner?
>>Literally we're covering like Creed at
some point.
>>Yeah!
>>Puddle of mud and just so
>>[inaudible singing]
>>Yeah yeah yeah
But you do an Eddie Vedder muffin man?
Right? >>[laughing]
We were talking about that the other day.
>>No
>>So funny
[laughter]
>>Sorry we're geeking out
you were saying you played Creed.
>>Yeah so I played, played Creed
>>Did you teach yourself?
>>Yeah I just kinda picked it up
and every other instrument I got lessons
like piano I got lessons you know
saxophone I got lessons but
drums I felt like I just kinda had a
natural knack for it and I picked it up
pretty quick but jazz drumming
is it's own, it's own animal and
every I always felt like I was coming in..
you're coming in early just because the
timing of everything and these jazz
drummers that I was watching like
Joe Jones and Buddy Rich I mean just such
a level of percussion skill I mean
really kind of virtuoso.
>>Did you have to hold it differently?
>>I mean that's the thing, the fundamental
thing of holding a stick is differently.
So instead of kinda
this more vertical hittin with it, it's more of a flick
you're moving around the kit
and it's just a whole different...
It's a different thing.
I felt very, you know,
bad at it, but it's one of those things
where we you know through hours practice I
kinda got to a point where I felt
pretty good about it.
But jazz is like insane.