To start with an insignificant understudy in Fletcher’s prestigious Shaffer Studio Band, Andrew will get a large “wreck” when he reputedly misplaces a folder.
Number one drummer Carl Tanner (Nate Lang) places Andrew accountable for retaining his sheet track, but if Andrew places it down for a 2d to use a merchandising gadget, it mysteriously disappears. Since Carl does not have the band’s whole regimen memorized however Andrew does, he’s taking over the function of “core drummer” for the efficiency that night time and transferring ahead.
Studying between the traces, it kind of feels like Fletcher is in all probability the one who stole the folder, although he does placed on a just right act of concern as he turns into acutely aware of its disappearance. With out context on its importance, it kind of feels most unlikely {that a} stranger or janitor would select it up within the temporary second Andrew leaves it unattended.
In response to the riding motivation to end up himself through his onerous paintings and ability, Andrew did not faux to lose it, both. Past due within the movie, when Andrew rejoins Fletcher after his firing for the JVC efficiency, he is the use of sheet track for “Whiplash” that experience the very same “loud” and “softer” hand-written notes that had been observed on Carl’s sheets previous. Whilst it isn’t explicitly showed, Fletcher may have given Andrew the exact same lacking sheet track.