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