Jazz Study Zone
★ Rich Willey’s Boptism Music Jazz Study Zone offers a lifetime worth of study materials to develop jazz theory, improvisation, reading and interpretation skills.
★ Digital downloads are nonrefundable, nonreturnable and nonexchangeable.
★ This page shows PDF books only.
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Arban’s Jazz Scale Connection for all 𝄢 bass clef instruments — Expanded Edition by Rich Willey (PDF)
How many times have you heard symphonically-oriented players ask how they can learn jazz without dragging down their legit chops? Or how many times have you heard jazz players ask how they can maintain proficiency in jazz playing and orchestral playing at the same time? Here is one answer to those questions.
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Arban’s Jazz Scale Connection for all 𝄞 treble clef instruments — Expanded Edition by Rich Willey (PDF)
How many times have you heard symphonically-oriented players ask how they can learn jazz without dragging down their legit chops? Or how many times have you heard jazz players ask how they can maintain proficiency in jazz playing and orchestral playing at the same time? Here is one answer to those questions.
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Improv Speed Builders Vol.1, “Standard” Blues for all 𝄞 treble and 𝄢 bass clef instruments by Rich Willey
Have you been hoping and searching for an ingenious, nearly effortless way to speed up your jazz improvisation abilities?
It’s right here: a melodic, methodical approach to improve your uptempo improvisation, including over 17 hours of play-along tracks engineered to incrementally get you from playing slow to playing fast!
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Improv Speed Builders Vol.2, “Bird” Blues for all 𝄞 treble and 𝄢 bass clef instruments by Rich Willey
Have you been hoping and searching for an ingenious, nearly effortless way to speed up your jazz improvisation abilities?
It’s right here: a melodic, methodical approach to improve your uptempo improvisation, including over 17 hours of play-along tracks engineered to incrementally get you from playing slow to playing fast!
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Improv Speed Builders Vol.3, Minor Blues for all 𝄞 treble and 𝄢 bass clef instruments by Rich Willey
Have you been hoping and searching for an ingenious, nearly effortless way to speed up your jazz improvisation abilities?
It’s right here: a melodic, methodical approach to improve your uptempo improvisation, including over 17 hours of play-along tracks engineered to incrementally get you from playing slow to playing fast!
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Improv Speed Builders Vol.4, “Giant Steps” changes for all 𝄞 treble and 𝄢 bass clef instruments by Rich Willey
Have you been hoping and searching for an ingenious, nearly effortless way to speed up your jazz improvisation abilities?
It’s right here: a melodic, methodical approach to improve your uptempo improvisation, including over 17 hours of play-along tracks engineered to incrementally get you from playing slow to playing fast!
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Improv Speed Builders Vol.5, “Nuts & Bolts” for all 𝄞 treble clef instruments by Rich Willey
Have you been hoping and searching for an ingenious, nearly effortless way to speed up your jazz improvisation abilities?
It’s right here: a melodic, methodical approach to improve your uptempo improvisation, including over 17 hours of play-along tracks engineered to incrementally get you from playing slow to playing fast!
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Jazz Improv Materials Handbook Complete for all 𝄢 bass clef instruments by Rich Willey (PDF)
Do trombonists ever wonder to themselves, “How can I overcome my self-imposed improvisational limits so I can cut loose & burn?”
Unlimited possibilities are set in motion by working through the pages of this massive course of study which includes 39 play-along tracks presented at medium and medium bright tempos.
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Jazz Improv Materials Handbook Complete for all 𝄞 treble clef instruments by Rich Willey (PDF)
Ever wondered to yourself, “How can I overcome my self-imposed improvisational limits so I can cut loose and burn?”
Unlimited possibilities are set in motion by working through the pages of this massive course of study which includes 39 play-along tracks presented at medium and medium bright tempos.
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The Melody Lingers On — 24 Melodic Jazz Solos for B♭ trumpet & all 𝄞 treble clef instruments by Rich Willey (PDF)
Wanna “learn by doing” with a melodic approach to jazz improv? Try these 24 solos over the jazz and bebop standards in our Vol. 2 duet book with customized play-along tracks.
Each solo is two choruses long in a comfortable playing range for wind instruments. Two tracks for each solo: medium and brighter tempo.
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The Melody Lingers On — 24 Melodic Jazz Solos for 𝄢 bass clef instruments by Rich Willey (PDF)
Wanna “learn by doing” with a melodic approach to jazz improv? Try these 24 solos over the jazz and bebop standards in our Vol. 2 duet book with customized play-along tracks.
Each solo is two choruses long in a comfortable playing range for wind instruments. Two tracks per solo: medium & brighter tempo.
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The Ultimate Blues Workout for all 𝄞 treble clef and 𝄢 bass clef instruments by Rich Willey (PDF)
Think you know how to play the blues? Here are 44 different blues (major, minor, & triple meter) in all 12 keys. Each two-page spread has blues for C treble clef, C bass clef, B♭ treble clef & E♭ treble clef instruments.
Download 8 play-along CDs worth of mp3s (two tempos per blues with or without melody) and a full set of MIDI files.