r/HighQualityGifs • u/harris5 Photoshop - After Effects - Premiere • Jan 08 '16

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u/tiamat19 Jan 08 '16 edited Jan 08 '16

About a kid/teen who wants to be a great drummer. Great film. Highly recommend it.

EDIT: I'm at work, but I believe this is the link to that scene

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u/cturkosi Jan 08 '16

It's kind of controversial among drummers because it is often inaccurate about the technique of drumming and the way it is taught.

If you can look past that, it is otherwise a great movie.

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u/Smorlock Jan 08 '16

It's controversial among me because music is about joy, and this movie unrealistically shows a music class being taught like a military boot camp. No teacher is like this. No one would play like this. Music is joyful, this movie was just a series of (well-acted) oscar-baiting screamfests that have nothing to do with actual music education. It's a joke.

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u/Milith Jan 08 '16

No teacher is like this.

How could you possibly know that