The Play Like Me Approach
You'll find that Play Like Me is different from other video instructional
systems because of 6 important features:
We teach people to effectively play from fake books or lead sheets. Just like pros use
fake books to quickly learn and play songs, with Play Like Me, you'll be able to quickly
play your favorite songs from a fake book.
We show you how to construct open position chords from the fake book. These are
great sounding chord arrangements that most pros use.
With Play Like Me, you don't just learn someone's "piano method." You learn how to
play real jazz songs. In each DVD, we show you step-by-step how to play a great jazz
song.
Often when you buy fake books, the arrangements just don't sound good. With each
Play Like Me song, Bill provides great modern arrangements that are designed to
sound great and be easy to learn.
Many teachers in video piano systems spend more time playing rather than teaching.
We provide interactive video that allows you to select any particular measure to work
on and then we provide close up video instruction that shows you each step of
building the chord and playing the melody. The system then plays each line back for
you to allow you to play along.
Nobody learns when the material is way too difficult. We've structured many of our
DVDs to be graduated with mulitple levels of lessons that let you advance and learn at
your own pace
systems because of 6 important features:
We teach people to effectively play from fake books or lead sheets. Just like pros use
fake books to quickly learn and play songs, with Play Like Me, you'll be able to quickly
play your favorite songs from a fake book.
We show you how to construct open position chords from the fake book. These are
great sounding chord arrangements that most pros use.
With Play Like Me, you don't just learn someone's "piano method." You learn how to
play real jazz songs. In each DVD, we show you step-by-step how to play a great jazz
song.
Often when you buy fake books, the arrangements just don't sound good. With each
Play Like Me song, Bill provides great modern arrangements that are designed to
sound great and be easy to learn.
Many teachers in video piano systems spend more time playing rather than teaching.
We provide interactive video that allows you to select any particular measure to work
on and then we provide close up video instruction that shows you each step of
building the chord and playing the melody. The system then plays each line back for
you to allow you to play along.
Nobody learns when the material is way too difficult. We've structured many of our
DVDs to be graduated with mulitple levels of lessons that let you advance and learn at
your own pace
| You can play jazz piano with these easy to follow video jazz piano lessons. Easily and quickly learn to play jazz piano. This is the absolute best and fastest way to play jazz piano. Learn songs with this great new approach. Step-by-step video piano lessons on how to play jazz songs. Learn to improvise and play jazz chords the way professionals play. These jazz piano instructional videos show you how to play great jazz arrangements on the piano. Multiple levels in each video are great for beginning piano lessons as well as more advanced piano lessons. Copyright 2003, Play Like Me, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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Play Like Me Music
When you want to play like a pro!
Bill Susman answers
some questions
about the Play Like
Me approach:
Why Learn Songs?
How do
arrangements help
me learn?
What are fake books
or lead sheets?
What are Open
Position Chords?
How are Play Like Me
DVDs interactive?
What kind of video do
I get?
What is meant by
multi-level lessons?
some questions
about the Play Like
Me approach:
Why Learn Songs?
How do
arrangements help
me learn?
What are fake books
or lead sheets?
What are Open
Position Chords?
How are Play Like Me
DVDs interactive?
What kind of video do
I get?
What is meant by
multi-level lessons?
Each of our instructional song DVDs comes with:
Detailed video instructions on an interactive DVD on how to build chords and play
from a fake book or lead sheet.
40+ page chord tutorial booklet that follows the video and also provides additional
information on building chords with added tones such as 9ths, 11ths and 13ths.
Complete video instruction package to show you how to play three levels of a great
jazz song like Black Orpheus/Manha de Carnaval.
Song booklet with information on the song, the chords you will learn, as well as tips to
playing the song
Multiple levels of custom arranged lead sheets to go with the song on the DVD
An Open Position Chord reference card to help you quickly build chords from a fake
book
The on-screen instruction provides:
Full performances of the song
On screen presentation of fingering and technique
Highlighted sheet music to show you where you are in the song
Easy to use navigation to let you quickly move to measures
Highlighted note guides for easy learning of the song
Play along segments to practice the song
On screen and coaching and explanations
Detailed video instructions on an interactive DVD on how to build chords and play
from a fake book or lead sheet.
40+ page chord tutorial booklet that follows the video and also provides additional
information on building chords with added tones such as 9ths, 11ths and 13ths.
Complete video instruction package to show you how to play three levels of a great
jazz song like Black Orpheus/Manha de Carnaval.
Song booklet with information on the song, the chords you will learn, as well as tips to
playing the song
Multiple levels of custom arranged lead sheets to go with the song on the DVD
An Open Position Chord reference card to help you quickly build chords from a fake
book
The on-screen instruction provides:
Full performances of the song
On screen presentation of fingering and technique
Highlighted sheet music to show you where you are in the song
Easy to use navigation to let you quickly move to measures
Highlighted note guides for easy learning of the song
Play along segments to practice the song
On screen and coaching and explanations
| A Sample Video Screen showing how each note is played for a chord in the lead sheet for the song |