1 00:00:00,501 --> 00:00:02,731 [Jimmy] In this movie Whiplash you play a young 2 00:00:02,731 --> 00:00:05,830 drummer in the film and it has to be really 3 00:00:05,830 --> 00:00:07,033 you really playing. 4 00:00:07,033 --> 00:00:09,150 [Miles] Oh yeah I mean I started playing when 5 00:00:09,150 --> 00:00:11,549 I was fifteen, I got a drum set 6 00:00:11,549 --> 00:00:12,837 because I thought, you know 7 00:00:12,837 --> 00:00:14,987 I played piano and saxaphone and that was cool 8 00:00:14,987 --> 00:00:16,157 but as I started getting 9 00:00:16,157 --> 00:00:19,748 older I was like oh man the drummers they're the coolest guys, Quest knows. 10 00:00:19,748 --> 00:00:21,001 [cheering] 11 00:00:21,001 --> 00:00:21,771 Just like, 12 00:00:21,771 --> 00:00:23,633 you just hanging back and like you know 13 00:00:23,633 --> 00:00:26,148 and drummers your just your in the pocket 14 00:00:26,148 --> 00:00:28,483 playing the beat and so yeah I just asked 15 00:00:28,483 --> 00:00:30,046 for a drum kit, 16 00:00:30,046 --> 00:00:34,056 you have a picture right there of.. >>There's Miles at 15. 17 00:00:34,056 --> 00:00:36,520 >>I was a young looking fifteen I mean 18 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:38,019 I look like a meerkat 19 00:00:38,019 --> 00:00:39,657 >>[laughter] A meerkat poking 20 00:00:39,657 --> 00:00:41,520 >>popping up behind that giant drum set 21 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:42,883 >>Yeah 22 00:00:42,883 --> 00:00:44,885 I guess my dad, cause it comes in pieces 23 00:00:44,885 --> 00:00:46,840 and so my dad was assembling it the night 24 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:48,899 before the toms are actually reversed 25 00:00:48,899 --> 00:00:51,100 and the high hat was all messed up but my 26 00:00:51,100 --> 00:00:52,883 parents were always very... 27 00:00:52,883 --> 00:00:54,691 my mom wanted all of her kids to play 28 00:00:54,691 --> 00:00:56,967 music and my house was constantly filled 29 00:00:56,967 --> 00:00:58,912 with music and kind of controlled chaos 30 00:00:58,912 --> 00:00:59,876 >>Oh really? 31 00:00:59,876 --> 00:01:02,793 >>Yeah I think she wanted a Partridge family kind of a thing. 32 00:01:02,793 --> 00:01:03,827 Dead serious. 33 00:01:03,827 --> 00:01:04,868 And then my dad, 34 00:01:04,868 --> 00:01:06,548 oh yeah I forgot, but my dad, 35 00:01:06,548 --> 00:01:08,382 I started playing in bands and stuff, 36 00:01:08,382 --> 00:01:10,712 you know I played in a band. 37 00:01:10,712 --> 00:01:12,801 Dad I had no idea you played an instrument 38 00:01:12,801 --> 00:01:14,100 what did you play? 39 00:01:14,100 --> 00:01:15,699 I played a rock tambourine 40 00:01:15,699 --> 00:01:17,267 [laughter] 41 00:01:17,267 --> 00:01:20,800 He's like but nobody really wanted to be in a band with a rock tambourine. 42 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:24,213 >>Rock tambourine yeah, that' s pretty >>When you start with that 43 00:01:24,213 --> 00:01:26,432 >>You got to really get into it 44 00:01:26,432 --> 00:01:29,611 that's rock tambourine time. 45 00:01:29,611 --> 00:01:31,227 >>what was the name of his band? 46 00:01:31,227 --> 00:01:32,528 [laughter] 47 00:01:32,528 --> 00:01:35,737 >>Yeah! [cheering] yeah boom. >>Go to our, Frank. 48 00:01:35,737 --> 00:01:37,285 Frank give them a little. 49 00:01:37,285 --> 00:01:41,325 [rock tambourine playing] 50 00:01:41,325 --> 00:01:43,008 That's rock tambourine. 51 00:01:43,698 --> 00:01:46,598 I watched this film and I couldn't 52 00:01:46,598 --> 00:01:48,660 believe it I said, there's no way it's 53 00:01:48,660 --> 00:01:50,481 a stunt double or something. 54 00:01:50,481 --> 00:01:53,009 You were really playing it did you have to practice? 55 00:01:53,009 --> 00:01:55,408 >>Yeah it was insane you know I played 56 00:01:55,408 --> 00:01:57,383 drums you know for many years 57 00:01:57,383 --> 00:02:00,149 I played kinda, I say like Florida rock 58 00:02:00,149 --> 00:02:01,365 and roll. 59 00:02:01,365 --> 00:02:03,150 >>Leonard Skinner? 60 00:02:03,150 --> 00:02:05,465 >>Literally we're covering like Creed at 61 00:02:05,465 --> 00:02:06,438 some point. 62 00:02:06,438 --> 00:02:07,195 >>Yeah! 63 00:02:07,195 --> 00:02:08,551 >>Puddle of mud and just so 64 00:02:08,551 --> 00:02:09,702 >>[inaudible singing] 65 00:02:09,702 --> 00:02:11,398 >>Yeah yeah yeah 66 00:02:12,674 --> 00:02:15,331 But you do an Eddie Vedder muffin man? 67 00:02:15,331 --> 00:02:17,171 Right? >>[laughing] 68 00:02:17,171 --> 00:02:19,128 We were talking about that the other day. 69 00:02:19,128 --> 00:02:20,120 >>No 70 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:21,584 >>So funny 71 00:02:21,584 --> 00:02:22,818 [laughter] 72 00:02:22,818 --> 00:02:24,723 >>Sorry we're geeking out 73 00:02:24,723 --> 00:02:26,298 you were saying you played Creed. 74 00:02:26,298 --> 00:02:28,600 >>Yeah so I played, played Creed 75 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:30,099 >>Did you teach yourself? 76 00:02:30,099 --> 00:02:31,658 >>Yeah I just kinda picked it up 77 00:02:31,658 --> 00:02:33,614 and every other instrument I got lessons 78 00:02:33,614 --> 00:02:35,554 like piano I got lessons you know 79 00:02:35,554 --> 00:02:36,947 saxophone I got lessons but 80 00:02:36,947 --> 00:02:38,678 drums I felt like I just kinda had a 81 00:02:38,678 --> 00:02:41,057 natural knack for it and I picked it up 82 00:02:41,057 --> 00:02:42,681 pretty quick but jazz drumming 83 00:02:42,681 --> 00:02:44,970 is it's own, it's own animal and 84 00:02:44,970 --> 00:02:47,548 every I always felt like I was coming in.. 85 00:02:47,548 --> 00:02:49,866 you're coming in early just because the 86 00:02:49,866 --> 00:02:51,537 timing of everything and these jazz 87 00:02:51,537 --> 00:02:53,115 drummers that I was watching like 88 00:02:53,115 --> 00:02:55,271 Joe Jones and Buddy Rich I mean just such 89 00:02:55,271 --> 00:02:57,497 a level of percussion skill I mean 90 00:02:57,497 --> 00:02:59,062 really kind of virtuoso. 91 00:02:59,062 --> 00:03:00,884 >>Did you have to hold it differently? 92 00:03:00,884 --> 00:03:02,891 >>I mean that's the thing, the fundamental 93 00:03:02,891 --> 00:03:04,936 thing of holding a stick is differently. 94 00:03:04,936 --> 00:03:05,868 So instead of kinda 95 00:03:05,868 --> 00:03:08,521 this more vertical hittin with it, it's more of a flick 96 00:03:08,521 --> 00:03:10,243 you're moving around the kit 97 00:03:10,243 --> 00:03:12,080 and it's just a whole different... 98 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:13,325 It's a different thing. 99 00:03:13,325 --> 00:03:14,879 I felt very, you know, 100 00:03:14,879 --> 00:03:16,789 bad at it, but it's one of those things 101 00:03:16,789 --> 00:03:19,846 where we you know through hours practice I 102 00:03:19,846 --> 00:03:22,396 kinda got to a point where I felt 103 00:03:22,396 --> 00:03:23,981 pretty good about it. 104 00:03:23,981 --> 00:03:26,480 But jazz is like insane.