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Miles Teller’s absolutely playing the drums throughout Whiplash; we just don’t always hear the sound his actual drumming produced. According to Chazelle:

Visually, it’s all Miles, minus a few inserts of hands where we used a double. In terms of audio, what you hear in the movie is probably a little more than half stuff we did to pre-records. Certainly, the big concert scene was done to pre-records of an L.A.-based drummer, but there’s big chunks where it’s just raw audio of Miles practicing or playing.

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Teller taught himself to play drums when he was 15, but favored rock ’n’ roll. Lang’s first job was to change Teller’s grip from what’s called “matched,” in which both hands hold the sticks the same way, to “traditional,” a grip used by jazz drummers in which the left hand holds the stick a bit sideways, almost like a chopstick.

The duo spent about two months working three to four hours a day in an LA rehearsal space. By the end, they began perfecting the songs from the film: “Whiplash” by Hank Levy and Duke Ellington’s “Caravan.”

The work paid off. “I think [the drumming] seemed pretty real,” says Jimmy Macbride, a local jazz drummer and a recent Juilliard grad who watched the trailer. “Usually they’re not really good about that in movies.”

To make the drumming appear real enough to pass with Macbride and other musicians, Lang practiced the songs in the movie to the point where they became second nature.

“I got to the point where if I hear ‘Whiplash,’ I have flashbacks, I’ve played it so much,” Lang says. “I have to get down on my hands and knees for a few seconds.”

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"My character plays jazz, which is a completely different style than what I've played," Teller told InStyle.com in a recent interview. "I felt like I was learning from scratch, because you hold the stick differently. The most fundamental thing is how you hold the drumstick, and that's very different. The timing and rhythms are completely different, too."

By the time they were done, they were throwing down on advanced songs like "Whiplash" and "Caravan," both of which figure prominently in the film. ("Whiplash" is the song that Teller's character is playing when he's almost decapitated by a chair thrown at him. "Caravan" is the song with the extended drum solo in the film's wonderful third act.) That's not to say what you see in the film was Teller playing those songs straight through, though. Chazelle broke the songs into chunks, and shot them piece by piece. Remember that "Caravan" solo? It took two days to shoot.

Then it was editor Tom Cross' job to make it look as if Teller "was playing his little heart out." As you saw, he did a great job. In fact, Cross' editing work in "Whiplash" is already earning awards, including one at last month's New Orleans Film Festival, where the film made its local debut.

So, long answer short, that is, indeed, Teller playing the drums -- but with help from some great editing and no small amount of hard work. The end result, as I'm sure you'll agree, is some beautiful music, indeed.

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