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OUR HISTORY
Airstream
Dynamics™ is an approach to brass playing for the coming
21st Century. Dave Sheetz, the author of the phrase
"Airstream Dynamics"™, attributes 40 years of study with the
late Dr. Donald S. Reinhardt, combined with a like number of
years playing professionally in the music field, as a
background to prepare brass players for the new century
awaiting us. Dr. Reinhardt authorized Dave to
teach his pivotal techniques (see authorization
here).
Dr. Reinhardt's
discovery of UPSTREAM and DOWNSTREAM classifications has
proven a major breakthrough in the realm of brass
performance and pedagogy, leading the way for the
Costello/Stevens school of upstream teaching along with
other disciplines, creating the range and power of the
modern brass musician.
Certainly anyone unfamiliar with the
UPSTREAM / DOWNSTREAM occurrence
is definitely "living in the dark ages" as far as the brass
world is concerned.
Oliver Wendell Holmes stated, "Many ideas grow better when
transplanted into another mind than in the one where they
sprang up."
With all humility on this author's part, many things
ARE made clearer and DO grow into something new, just
as the original thinkers
of old assimilated THEIR sum
total of experience and knowledge of all that came
before them to create the "new form" in
THEIR
lifetimes.
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Thus,
Airstream Dynamics™ in part derives its name
from the airstream work of its predecessors and the
dynamic way in which they went about presenting their
work to the brass world.So, what is Airstream
Dynamics™ and what's "new, better and different" about
it? Simply stated, "THE RESULTS!" There is
enough material and/or information now available in
the accumulated history of brass playing. WHAT
IS NEEDED AND WANTED is to find the SPECIFIC
information for the SPECIFIC set of circumstances and
the SPECIFIC physical makeup of the individual to whom
such information will put the performer on the "right
track." That is the role of Airstream Dynamics™,
now and in the future.
This is
NOT to imply that "nothing new is to be found out
about brass playing!" On the contrary, with
each breakthrough in each generation, the art of brass
playing will continue to grow and develop, keeping
pace with the new composers and arrangers, along with
individual talents, performing previously unheard
possibilities. As Richard Bandler has pointed
out, "There is a huge difference between learning some
things, and discovering what there is still to learn.
That is the difference that makes the
difference." (Continued...............)
Welcome to Airstream Dynamics™ .
Who knows what is possible for you? -Dave Sheetz
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you can purchase the "Reinhardt Routines" for Bb
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