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Aug 23, 2014 - 1:24 PM
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David-R.
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Whiplash
SKU: VSD-7286
UPC: 030206728682
Artist: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Title: Whiplash
Composer: Justin Hurwitz, Tim Simonec
Release Date: 10/07/14
Andrew Neyman is a 19-year-old jazz drummer, dreaming of greatness but unsure if his dream will ever come true. Haunted by the failed writing career of his father, Andrew is determined to rise to the top of the country’s most elite music conservatory. One night, Terence Fletcher (J.K. Simmons), a conductor equally known for his talent for teaching as he is for the terrifying method of his instruction, discovers Andrew practicing the drums. Even though Fletcher says very little to him that night, he ignites in Andrew a passion to achieve his goal. To Andrew's surprise, the next day, Fletcher requests that he be transferred into his band. This single act changes the young man’s life forever.
The WHIPLASH soundtrack consists of 21 tracks sequenced in 3 distinct parts: Original jazz songs written for the film, original score written for the film, and classic jazz standards by Stan Getz, Duke Ellington and more. There are also choice snippets of dialog included on the soundtrack that sum up the narrative of the film and help to put the music in context (à la Pulp Fiction). The Original Score & Big Band Songs created by Justin Hurwitz. The original jazz songs were created by Grammy®-nominated composer, Tim Simonec.
Sony Pictures Classics will open WHIPLASH on October 10.
Varese Sarabande Catalog # 302 067 286 8
Release Date: 10/07/14
http://www.varesesarabande.com/servlet/the-1187/Whiplash/Detail
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The chart they band repeatedly rehearses is "Whiplash" composed by the late Hank Levy. He is listed in the end title credits. Levy wrote many charts with unusual time signatures for Don Ellis and Stan Kenton. He also taught at a Maryland college. Faking it on the drums is very difficult especially the single stroke roll that develops into the full roll. If the real drummer is credited, I missed it.
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Aug 26, 2016 - 9:18 AM
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Faking it on the drums is very difficult especially the single stroke roll that develops into the full roll. If the real drummer is credited, I missed it.
That's because actor Miles Teller is the real drummer. Teller had some limited previous experience as a drummer in a rock band. But he received considerable assistance nonetheless. First, director Damien Chazelle enlisted drummer Nate Lang (who also plays Teller's fellow drummer/antagonist Carl in the film) to help put Teller through drumming "boot camp" in order to get him up to speed on the basics of jazz drumming. For about two months, the two spent three or four hours a day working on Teller's technique. Second, Teller was not playing the songs straight through. Chazelle broke the songs into chunks, and shot them piece by piece. The "Caravan" drum solo that ends the film took two days to shoot. Then it was editor Tom Cross' job to make it look as if Teller was playing continuously.
The issue of whether Teller is the drummer we actually see (and hear) throughout the whole film is more complex. While Teller deserves every bit of praise he gets for his work in the film, per the articles below, my understanding of Teller's drumming in the film is that the soundtrack itself was 60% prerecorded, 20% recorded live, and 20% recorded after the fact, with the performances of more than one professional jazz drummer actually doing the drumming we hear on the soundtrack.
Teller then had to do the onscreen drumming to match that, and by almost all accounts did the vast majority of it. In the few instances in which Teller couldn't equal the musicianship, they used a few shots of a hand double, and in further rare moments, the editor had use editing (removing frames, etc.) to make sure the rhythms matched perfectly.
So in terms of what we hear onscreen, I think only about 20% of Teller's drumming is actually heard. And that's no slight on him -- the guy did a fantastic job.
What I am a little bummed about is that the movie used more than one drummer for the actual soundtrack, but then didn't actually credit those musicians on the soundtrack (not even the soloists), and to me that's ironic, and a real disservice, in a movie about music and musicianship. I wondered if part of the reason they weren't identified was to perpetuate the myth that Teller did all the drumming, which I think is really unnecessary.
Here are some good discussions of the technical aspects of the drumming and sound behind the scenes:
Oscar-winner Ben Wilkins on Whiplash’s audio mix, edit
http://postperspective.com/oscar-nominee-ben-wilkins-whiplashs-audio-mix-edit/
'Whiplash': Editing Miles Teller's Drumming, 'French Connection' Inspiration
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/behind-screen/whiplash-editing-miles-tellers-drumming-751403
Peter Erskine on "Whiplash"
https://www.kcet.org/shows/artbound/drummer-peter-erskine-on-jazz-flick-whiplash
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