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25% off Christmas Coupon

Tuesday, 20 December 2011 03:39 |

Written by Music Motivation® |

Enter the coupon "Christmas" at the Music Motivation® store and receive 25% off everything purchased on-line (extended until Jan. 1st, 2011). There is no limit attached to this coupon. Purchase for yourself, your studio, or your students. Have a Merry Christmas! Please let us know if there is anything we can do to help.

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Last Updated (Tuesday, 20 December 2011 04:19)

Cool Songs for Cool Kids Series (primer level and volumes 1, 2, and 3)

Thursday, 01 September 2011 17:14 |

Written by Music Motivation® |

The "Cool Songs for Cool Kids Series™"

by Jerald M. Simon

"Adored by students, approved by teachers™"

Let music motivate you!

$38.95 for the series (a 10% discount)

The Cool Songs for Cool Kids Series contains 4 books:

"Cool Songs for Cool Kids" primer level ($10.95)

"Cool Songs for Cool Kids" volume 1 ($10.95)

"Cool Songs for Cool Kids" volume 2 ($10.95

"Cool Songs for Cool Kids" volume 3 ($10.95)

The “Cool Songs for Cool Kids™ - Series™ by Jerald M. Simon and published by Music Motivation® is a series featuring original compositions written by Jerald M. Simon for beginning, early intermediate - intermediate and late intermediate piano students. The slogan for Music Motivation® is “Music that excites, entertains, and educates! – Let music motivate you!™”. With each book from the series, Jerald motivates piano students and piano teachers with “cool” sounding piano pieces that have been written to teach a specific skill or theory concept to help students be better pianists and know their theory. The musical pieces are "Adored by students and approved by teachers™".

The popular series has received wonderful reviews from the 2011 July/August issue of the Clavier Companion and the 2011 August/September issue of the American Music Teacher (MTNA). The series has also been featured in the "Publisher of the Month" promotion from the distributor Chesbro Music Co. (1.800.243.7276) who is the exclusive distributor of all Music Motivation® products.

For the next month, we will allow piano teachers to download 1 copy of the Cool Songs for Cool Kids (Primer Level Book - in PDF format) for FREE. Simply click on the book cover below to download your FREE copy of Cool Songs for Cool Kids (Primer Level). You may then order the physical copy for yourself or your students by clicking on the "ADD to Cart" button below the book cover. This promotional will only last for the next month - 1 copy per teacher only of the Primer Level.

“Cool Songs for Cool Kids™ – primer level” ($10.95)

Price discounts are available for large quantities

“Cool Songs for Cool Kids™ – primer level” contains 21 original compositions by Jerald M. Simon. The songs are: (1) “Cool Piano Exercise # 1”, (2) “Blue Lagoon”, (3) “H2O - Ready, Set, Go!”, (4) “The Unicorn that Got Away”, (5) “Keep on Keeping on”, (6) “Rhythmically Impaired”, (7) “Walkie-Talkie War Cry”, (8) “Cool Piano Exercise # 2”, (9) “Ghost Town Giggles”, (10) “Big Ben Strikes Again”, (11) “Cool Piano Exercise # 3”, (12) “Cool Piano Exercise # 4”, (13) “The 5th Avenue Frolic”, (14) “Cool Piano Exercise # 5”, (15) “The Sinking Submarine”, (16) “Down and Out”, (17) “Let 'em Have it!”, (18) “The Pizza Party Patrol”, (19) “Ferris Wheel”, (20) “Western Winds”, (21) “Point and Click”, (22) "Oh-Vation!", (23) "Little Piece", (24) "Revenge of the Piranhas", (25) "The Cocker-Spaniel Catastrophe", and (26) "Have Mercy!".

Listen to Jerald M. Simon play the 21 piano solos from

"Cool Songs for Cool Kids™ Primer Level"

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“Cool Songs for Cool Kids™ – volume 1” ($10.95)

Price discounts are available for large quantities

“Cool Songs for Cool Kids™ – volume I” contains 21 original compositions by Jerald M. Simon. The songs are: (1) “Five, Four, Three, Two, One…BLAST OFF!”, (2) “Playground Pro”, (3) “Beatcha to it”, (4) “Checkmate”, (3) “Five for Five”, (4) “Deep Sea Diving”, (5) “Beatcha to it”, (6) “Checkmate”, (7) “Game Over”, (8) “Locker Jam”, (9) “Rock ‘n Rag”, (10) “Rocket Man”, (11) “Junkyard Jive”, (12) “Lefty”, (13) “Championship Game”, (14) “On Your Mark…Get Set…” (15) “Spy Games”, (16) “Proximity”, (17) “Battle Front”, (18) “Homework Hang-Over”, (19) “Thunderstorm”, (20) “Bittersweet”, and (21) “New Age-Ish”.

Listen to Jerald M. Simon play the 21 piano solos from

"Cool Songs for Cool Kids™ Volume 1"

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“Cool Songs for Cool Kids™ – volume 2” ($10.95)

Price discounts are available for large quantities

“Cool Songs for Cool Kids™ – volume II” contains 21 original compositions by Jerald M. Simon. The songs are: (1) “Boot Camp Boogie”, (2) “Tick-Tock Click 'n Clock”, (3) “The Spy Kid”, (4) “Renegade Rogue”, (5) “Paparazzi Polka”, (6) “Wishful Thinking”, (7) “The Kick Box Kid”, (8) “Sweet Serenity”, (9) “Fancy That”, (10) “Smooth Sailing”, (11) “Third Time's the Charm”, (12) “Bored Game Blues”, (13) “Amazed”, (14) “Keepin' it Real” (15) "Slip 'n Slide Summertime" (16) “Pogo Stick Punch Out”, (17) “The Gigabyte Guru”, (18) “Chillaxing”, (19) “Suspense Thriller”, (20) “Je Ne Sais Quoi”, and (21) “Skillz".

Listen to Jerald M. Simon play the 21 piano solos from

"Cool Songs for Cool Kids™ Volume 2"

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“Cool Songs for Cool Kids™ – volume 3” ($10.95)

Price discounts are available for large quantities

“Cool Songs for Cool Kids™ – volume 3” contains 10 original compositions by Jerald M. Simon. The songs are: (1) “Master of My Fate”, (2) “Power Play”, (3) “Pounding the Pavement”, (4) “Contemplation”, (5) “From the Heart”, (6) “Moving On”, (7) “In the Know", (8) “Timing it Right”, (9) “Dis-Chord”, and (10) “Graduation".

Listen to Jerald M. Simon play the the first 5 piano solos from

"Cool Songs for Cool Kids™ Volume 3"

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We'd love to hear from you. Please feel free to contact us with any questions you may have or if you would like to place an order by phone (801)444-5143. You may purchase directly from the store website by clicking here. If you would rather purchase these books from your local music store, please have your local music store order the books from Chesbro Music Co (1.800.243.7276) - the national distributor for all music books published by Music Motivation®. Feel free to send us your success stories or testimonials. Email us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Last Updated (Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:13)