The phrase "a method of playing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing techniques or approaches to engage in a particular activity, especially in contexts like games, music, or sports.
Example: "The instructor introduced a method of playing the guitar that focuses on fingerstyle techniques."
Alternatives: "a way of playing" or "a technique for playing".
A playgoer wrote: "Any other man might labour all of his life and at last not get into so bad a method of playing".
Meanwhile a cluster of high-class players for Belgium press on, seeking a method of playing that welds them into a more cohesive force.
Equally, however, the pragmatic Ranieri seems to have accepted this group of players have a method of playing which, if slightly frantic, is working for them.
She has played many organizing roles but made her greatest contribution this year when she and her colleague, Mark Newton, developed a method of playing bridge worldwide.
Rose believes that if researchers can find out what tune is being played by long-lived mice, they can come up with a method of playing an equivalent tune in human beings.
"I developed a method of playing and replaying the footage – spotting the start of a song and then looking for clues such as an opening word of the lyric or an instrument".
That honor should belong to Spain, a magnificent team with a method of play all of its own, which emerged victorious from South Africa in 2010, or Germany, which looks very strong.
Critics noted that he frequently hit Stanley Jackson to the leg side, a method of play which was unusual at the time.
Metroids multiple endings enticed players to race through the game as fast as possible, a method of play commonly known as speedrunning.
A week before her 17th birthday, while playing a Bach fugue, she fell into what she later described as a trance in which she had a "sudden blinding insight" about a new method of playing Bach.
(This made me think of Wes Montgomery, who developed a distinctive method of playing electric guitar with his thumb, rather than a pick, because he needed a softer sound — his wife was sleeping in the next room).
