No one looks him in the eyes. When Andrew plays with the concert band for the first time, the two men relish the work by actor Nate Lang as the drummer asked to take a seat in favor of the young prodigy. WARNING: Spoilers. Fletcher is - to say the least - a difficult and demanding task master who accepts and expects nothing less that perfection from his students. When Fletcher walks in, the band jumps to attention as if doing a military drill. When Neiman meets core band drummer Carl Tanner (Nate Lang), he makes an enemy right away, as Carl snaps: CARL TANNER: Tune the set to B-flat. He is selected by the school's senior instructor, Mr. Fletcher, to play on his studio band. Directed by Damien Chazelle. Nate Lang (Carl) is an accomplished drummer and trained Miles Teller and Austin Stowell for their roles. What is Miles Teller worth? Then you’ll turn my pages during rehearsal. their sight is trained ahead or to the floor. Starring Miles Teller, J.K. Simmons, Melissa Benoist, Paul Reiser, Austin Stowell, Nate Lang. The films opens with Andrew Neimann (Miles Teller) playing the drums at Shaffer Conservatory of Music, the music school in USA and he's just an alternate drummer in some school band.Andrew abruptly stops playing drums when the band conductor, Terence Fletcher (J.K. Simmons) appears at the door in front of him and asking Andrew some personal information of him. Andrew is a drummer and a first year student at the Schaffer Conservatory. In November 2006 Thomas released the DVD and book "Creative Coordination And Advanced Foot Techniques" which has set a new standard in contemporary drumming techniques. Oscar-nommed and much talked about, the film is pretty authentic – the film’s writer/director Damien Chazelle is a drummer; star Miles Teller has played drums in rock bands, while his co-star/rival in the film is Nate Lang, drummer with New York blues-rockers The Howling Souls, who also coached Teller in how to play convicingly on screen. He has good reason to be hostile. When Tanner asks Andrew to hold onto his sheet music before a competition, Andrew loses it. Miles Teller net worth and salary: Miles Teller is an American actor who has a net worth of $14 million . Wilson was a musician in real life, but he was a drummer, not a pianist. Whiplash is a 2014 American psychological drama film written and directed by Damien Chazelle.It depicts the relationship between an ambitious jazz drummer (Miles Teller) and an abusive perfectionist bandleader (J. K. Simmons) at the fictional Shaffer Conservatory. 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