
Spice up your holidays with these great jazz arrangements of holiday classics. Bill Susman has created wonderful contemporary jazz arrangements of these wonderful songs.
These videos provide complete detailed step-by-step video lessons on how to play a song. Each song introduces various interesting jazz topics and techniques so you can learn how to quickly apply the various jazz concepts in a real life setting. Just like all of the Play Like Me videos, the Holiday Collection is perfect for all levels of student and piano player.
You can start with basic jazz versions of Oh, Christmas Tree, What Child is This, Auld Lang Syne, and Silent Night, and then move on to more challenging arrangements for the rest of the songs. This
allows you to progress at your own pace.” Each song introduces various jazz concepts such as chord substitutions, passing chords, added-tones, Gospel chords, jazz endings, walking bass lines and
basic improvisation techniques.
These videos provide you over 7 hours of instruction, all available directly to your personal computer over the Internet. You own the video and can access anytime, anywhere you want over the Internet.
Bill shows you how to build the chords and play the melody for each measure of the Holiday songs. On-screen annotation highlights each note of the chord as its played. Interactive menus enable the students to easily repeat specific chapters, or select individual lessons or songs. These videos also let you practice along with Bill as he plays through each lesson of the song.
The accompanying downloadable PDFs include all of the sheet music for each song. You also get the MP3 of the song from Bill Susman's CD, "Christmas Cool."