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September Special (enter promotional code JeraldSimon2010)

Wednesday, 01 September 2010 15:11 |

Written by Music Motivation® |

September Special

September is my birthday month! I turn the big 3-0 on Saturday, the 4th. In honor of the event, I've decided to give a 30% discount on all Music Motivation® products purchased online at www.shop.musicmotivation.com. These special savings begin TODAY and will continue until September 10th. This discount includes everything in the online store (Music Motivation® Ebooks, Music Motivation® PDF Downloads (individual sheet music), and Music Motivation® Books. To receive the 30% discount on every order, enter the code JeraldSimon2010 when it asks for a promotional code. This special will end on Sept. 10th, 2010 It's our way of saying thank you for following the Music Motivation® website/blog and me (Jerald M. Simon).

All Music Motivation® CDs (physical copies) can also be purchased online by visiting Music Motivation® CDs and DVDs. If you would like to purchase an MP3 download of the CD "Hymns of Exaltation", you may do so from CDbaby, Amazon.Com, or search for Jerald M. Simon on iTunes. At each location you may purchase the CD as a download-able MP3 or download each individual song as an MP3. The 30% discount will only apply to purchases made online at www.shop.musicmotivation.com.

For those of you who have purchased my "Hymns of Exaltation" CD, I want to say thank you. It has been wonderful to hear the feedback from so many of you about the hymn arrangements and the CD. If you would like to email a testimonial to me for inclusion on my website and media related press releases, please email your testimonial to me at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . If you live in the state of Utah (and possibly Idaho) and would like to have me perform one of the hymn arrangements in your church, please let me know and I will look at my schedule. I don't charge anything when I play in church, sacrament meetings, Sunday school, or youth visits etc.

I'd love to hear back from each of you. Thank you again.

Last Updated (Wednesday, 01 September 2010 16:35)

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Monday, 24 May 2010 00:00 |

Written by Music Motivation® |

Music Motivation® Products fall under three main areas of focus: Theory Therapy™, Innovative Improvisation™, and Creative Composition™.

As a company, Music Motivation® is dedicated to producing the best quality products to help musicians of all ages better understand music theory, improvisation, and composition. We try to tailor our products around the needs of piano teachers and students of all ages both beginning and advanced and would love to receive your feedback about what we can do to better help you teach and learn. Let us know if there is a type of book, CD, or DVD you would like to see in the field, but have not yet found, that would help you teach and learn better. Feel free to email us your ideas at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . We look forward to your comments and suggestions.

Feel free to look at each of the individual product pages to see sample pages, videos, and to listen to the songs from the books. Click on each of the book covers below to view each of the Music Motivation® titles:

“An Introduction to Scales and Modes” by Jerald M. Simon

"An Introduction to Scales and Modes" by Jerald M. Simon ($16.95)

$16.95

“Variations on Mary Had a Little Lamb” by Jerald M. Simon

"Variations on Mary Had a Little Lamb" by Jerald M. Simon ($8.95)

$8.95

“Jazzed about Jazz” by Jerald M. Simon

"Jazzed about Jazz™" by Jerald M. Simon ($13.95)

$13.95

“Sea Fever” by Jerald M. Simon

"Sea Fever" by Jerald M. Simon ($13.95)

$13.95

“Hymns of Exaltation” by Jerald M. Simon

"Hymns of Exaltation" by Jerald M. Simon ($13.95)

$13.95

“Jazzed about Christmas” by Jerald M. Simon

"Jazzed about Christmas™" by Jerald M. Simon ($10.95)

$10.95

“Triumphant” by Jerald M. Simon

"Triumphant" by Jerald M. Simon ($16.95)

$16.95

“Cool Songs for Cool Kids™“ by Jerald M. Simon

"Cool Songs for Cool Kids™" by Jerald M. Simon ($10.95)

$10.95

Motivate your students with fun and upbeat music that excites, entertains, and educates.

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"Cool Songs for Cool Kids" by Jerald M. Simon ($10.95)

Monday, 17 May 2010 20:07 |

Written by Music Motivation® |

“Cool Songs for Cool Kids™” by Jerald M. Simon ($10.95)

$10.95

To purchase a copy of “Cool Songs for Cool Kids™” visit www.shop.musicmotivation.com, or visit your local music store. If your local music store is not yet carrying Music Motivation® products, they may contact Music Motivation® at:

P.O. Box 1000, Kaysville, UT 84037-1000 or send an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for the distributors contact info.

It is the hope of the author Jerald M. Simon and the publisher Music Motivation®, that each of these piano solos will be fun, upbeat, and enjoyable to the teachers, students, performers and listeners. In addition to having fun, students will learn the theory used to create each song.

“Cool Songs for Cool Kids”™ is the latest book to the Music Motivation® series and features 21 original compositions written by Jerald M. Simon for the beginner to early intermediate piano student. The slogan for Music Motivation® is “Music that excites, entertains, and educates! – Let music motivate you!™”. With this book, Jerald motivates piano students with “cool” sounding songs that have been written to teach a specific skill or theory concept to help students be better pianists and know their theory.

Click on the widget music player below to listen to Jerald M. Simon play each song from the book “Cool Songs for Cool Kids”.

The book retails for $10.95 (42 pages) (Click Here to purchase) and, as with all of the books from the Music Motivation® series, includes 5 pages of lesson/theory material containing exercises, chords, scales, and explanations about the theory used in creating each song.

Here is what is said on the introduction page of the book:

I hope you enjoy “Cool Songs for Cool Kids™”. This is Volume I in the series. Each of the books contain “cool” songs written for kids of all ages (whether they are 8 or 108). Each of the songs in each volume teach skills (music theory, technique, transposing, improvising, composing, etc.) through fun and upbeat songs composed by Music Mentor™ Jerald M. Simon and other composers and Music Motivation® artists™ from Music Motivation®.

“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”.

Here are the first lines from each of the 21 songs from “Cool Songs for Cool Kids™”:

"Five, Four, Three, Two, One Blast OFF!" written by Jerald M. Simon

Five, Four, Three, Two, One Blast OFF! written by Jerald M. Simon

"Playground Pro" written by Jerald M. Simon

Playground Pro written by Jerald M. Simon

"Five for Five" - written by Jerald M. Simon

Five for Five - written by Jerald M. Simon

"Deep Sea Diving" - written by Jerald M. Simon

Deep Sea Diving - written by Jerald M. Simon

"Beatcha to it" - written by Jerald M. Simon

Beatcha to it - written by Jerald M. Simon

"Checkmate" - written by Jerald M. Simon

Checkmate - written by Jerald M. Simon

"Game Over" - written by Jerald M. Simon

Game Over - written by Jerald M. Simon

"Locker Jam" - written by Jerald M. Simon

Locker Jam - written by Jerald M. Simon

"Rock 'n Rag" - written by Jerald M. Simon

Rock 'n Rag - written by Jerald M. Simon

"Rocket Man" - written by Jerald M. Simon

Rocket Man - written by Jerald M. Simon

"Junkyard Jive" - written by Jerald M. Simon

Junkyard Jive - written by Jerald M. Simon

"Lefty" - written by Jerald M. Simon

Lefty - written by Jerald M. Simon

"Championship Game" - written by Jerald M. Simon

Championship Game - written by Jerald M. Simon

"On Your Mark...Get Set..." - written by Jerald M. Simon

On Your Mark...Get Set... - written by Jerald M. Simon

"Spy Games" - written by Jerald M. Simon

Spy Games - written by Jerald M. Simon

"Proximity" - written by Jerald M. Simon

Proximity - written by Jerald M. Simon

"Battle Front" - written by Jerald M. Simon

Battle Front - written by Jerald M. Simon

"Homework Hang-over" - written by Jerald M. Simon

Homework Hang-over - written by Jerald M. Simon

"Thunderstorm" - written by Jerald M. Simon

Thunderstorm - written by Jerald M. Simon

"Bittersweet" - written by Jerald M. Simon

Bittersweet - written by Jerald M. Simon

"New Age-ish" by Jerald M. Simon

New Age-ish - written by Jerald M. Simon

To purchase “Cool Songs for Cool Kids” from Music Motivation® for $10.95 Click Here or go to www.shop.musicmotivation.com

$10.95

Click Here If you would like to purchase a downloadable pdf version of the book “Cool Songs for Cool Kids” for $8.95.

$8.95

Last Updated (Monday, 17 May 2010 20:48)

"Jazzed about Jazz" by Jerald M. Simon - $13.95

Saturday, 15 May 2010 00:00 |

Written by Music Motivation® |

“Jazzed about Jazz” by Jerald M. Simon ($13.95)

$13.95

To purchase a copy of “Jazzed about Jazz” visit www.shop.musicmotivation.com, or visit your local music store. If your local music store is not yet carrying Music Motivation® products, they may contact Music Motivation® at:

P.O. Box 1000, Kaysville, UT 84037-1000 or

send an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for the distributors contact info.

Click on the widget music player below to listen to Jerald M. Simon play each song from the book “Jazzed about Jazz”.

“Jazzed about Jazz™” features 8 original jazz piano solos written by Jerald M. Simon. They are: (1) “Boomerang Boogie”, (2) “Skippin’ Along”, (3) “The Sidewalk Shuffle”, (4) “Summer Skies”, (5) “Railroad Ruckus”, (6) “The Big Bad Blues”, (7) "Playin' Around", and (8) "The Jazz Song". Each of the songs in this book is presented in lesson format where students learn the jazz theory used in writing the songs.

"Boomerang Boogie" by Jerald M. Simon

I wrote “Boomerang Boogie” to help students learn left hand boogie woogie patterns. The right hand plays several variations of the blues scale, and various 7th and 9th chords in different inversions.

Here is a video clip of me playing “Boomerang Boogie” on the Piano.

"Skippin' Along" by Jerald M. Simon

I wrote “Skippin’ Along” to present a progression of 7th chords descending in 5ths and played in root 1st, 2nd, and 3rd inversions.

Here is a video clip of me playing “Skippin’ Along” on the Piano.

"The Sidewalk Shuffle" by Jerald M. Simon

I wrote “The Sidewalk Shuffle” to help students learn three left hand shuffle patterns and the chromatic scale (the half step scale).

Here is a video clip of me playing “Sidewalk Shuffle” on the Piano.

"Summer Skies" by Jerald M. Simon

I wrote “Summer Skies” to teach all of the 7th chords moving up diatonically (according to the major scale) in any given key
signature. I named the song after my little girl, Summer.

Here is a video clip of me playing “Summer Skies” on the Piano.

"Railroad Ruckus" by Jerald M. Simon

I wrote “Railroad Ruckus” to help teach the left hand blues pattern of a perfect 5th, major 6th, minor 7th, and returning back to the major 6th interval, and the blues scales beginning on C, F, and G.

Here is a video clip of me playing “Railroad Ruckus” on the Piano.

"The Big Bad Blues" by Jerald M. Simon

I wrote “The Big Bad Blues” to introduce students to a blues left hand pattern, crushed notes (played simultaneously with the following note and released immediately), and the tremolo (alternating rapidly between two notes or chords).

Here is a video clip of me playing “The Big Bad Blues” on the Piano.

To purchase “Jazzed about Jazz” from Music Motivation® for $13.95 Click Here or go to www.shop.musicmotivation.com

$13.95

Click Here If you would like to purchase a downloadable pdf version of the book “Jazzed about Jazz” for $11.95

$11.95

You may purchase each individual song from “Jazzed about Jazz” as a pdf file (Sheet Music) for $1.25 per song, or as an MP3 file (Audio Download) for $.99 per song. Simply click on “PDF Sheet Music” or “MP3 Download” below each individual title to purchase an individual song from “Jazzed about Jazz” by Jerald M. Simon

(1). “Boomerang Boogie” by Jerald M. Simon

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(2). “Skippin’ Along” by Jerald M. Simon

PDF Sheet Music - MP3 Download

(3). “The Sidewalk Shuffle” by Jerald M. Simon

PDF Sheet Music - MP3 Download

(4). “Summer Skies” by Jerald M. Simon

PDF Sheet Music - MP3 Download

(5). “Railroad Ruckus” by Jerald M. Simon

PDF Sheet Music - MP3 Download

(6). “The Big Bad Blues” by Jerald M. Simon

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Last Updated (Tuesday, 18 May 2010 18:03)

"Triumphant" by Jerald M. Simon - $16.95

Friday, 14 May 2010 20:01 |

Written by Music Motivation® |

"Triumphant" by Jerald M. Simon ($16.95)

“Triumphant” by Jerald M. Simon ($16.95)

$16.95

To purchase a copy of “Triumphant” visit www.shop.musicmotivation.com, or visit your local music store. If your local music store is not yet carrying Music Motivation® products, they may contact Music Motivation® at:

P.O. Box 1000, Kaysville, UT 84037-1000 or send an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for the distributors contact info.

“Triumphant”, contains 10 original piano solos by Jerald M. Simon. As with all Music Motivation® books, there are five pages of lesson material at the beginning of the book that teach the theory used in composing these songs. Students learn all major and minor chords in all keys and in every inversion, all major and minor octave chords in all keys, perfect and major intervals and inverted intervals, and chords.

The 10 original piano solos in Triumphant are: (1) “Triumphant”, (2) “What Could Have Been”, (3) “Prestige”, (4) “Stepping Stones”, (5) “Conviction”, (6) “Standing Tall”, (7) “Ahead of the Game” (8) “Looking Up”, (9) “If at First You Don’t Succeed”, and (10) “Starting Over”.

Click on the widget music player below to listen to Jerald M. Simon play each song from the book “Triumphant”.

Here are a few sample pages from the book “Triumphant”.

"Triumphant" by Jerald M. Simon

"Triumphant" by Jerald M. Simon

"What Could Have Been" by Jerald M. Simon

"What Could Have Been" by Jerald M. Simon

"Prestige" by Jerald M. Simon

"Prestige" by Jerald M. Simon

"Stepping Stones" by Jerald M. Simon

"Stepping Stones" by Jerald M. Simon

"Conviction" by Jerald M. Simon

"Conviction" by Jerald M. Simon

"Standing Tall" by Jerald M. Simon

"Standing Tall" by Jerald M. Simon

"Ahead of the Game" by Jerald M. Simon

"Ahead of the Game" by Jerald M. Simon

"Looking Up" by Jerald M. Simon

"Looking Up" by Jerald M. Simon

"If at First You Don't Succeed..." by Jerald M. Simon

"If at First You Don't Succeed..." by Jerald M. Simon

"Starting Over" by Jerald M. Simon

"Starting Over" by Jerald M. Simon

To purchase “Triumphant” from Music Motivation® for $16.95 Click Here or go to www.shop.musicmotivation.com

$16.95

Click Here If you would like to purchase a downloadable pdf version of the book “Triumphant” for $14.95.

$14.95

You may purchase each individual song from “Triumphant” as a pdf file (Sheet Music) for $1.25 per song, or as an MP3 file (Audio Download) for $.99 per song. Simply click on “PDF Sheet Music” or “MP3 Download” below each individual title to purchase an individual song from “Triumphant” by Jerald M. Simon

(1). “Triumphant” by Jerald M. Simon

PDF Sheet Music - MP3 Download

$1.25 $.99

(2). “What Could Have Been” by Jerald M. Simon

PDF Sheet Music - MP3 Download

$1.25 $.99

(3). “Prestige” by Jerald M. Simon

PDF Sheet Music - MP3 Download

$1.25 $.99

(4). “Stepping Stones” by Jerald M. Simon

PDF Sheet Music - MP3 Download

$1.25 $.99

(5). “Conviction” by Jerald M. Simon

PDF Sheet Music - MP3 Download

$1.25 $.99

(6). “Standing Tall” by Jerald M. Simon

PDF Sheet Music - MP3 Download

$1.25 $.99

(7). “Ahead of the Game” by Jerald M. Simon

PDF Sheet Music - MP3 Download

$1.25 $.99

(8). “Looking Up” by Jerald M. Simon

PDF Sheet Music - MP3 Download

$1.25 $.99

(9). “If at First You Don’t Succeed” by Jerald M. Simon

PDF Sheet Music - MP3 Download

$1.25 $.99

(10). “Starting Over” by Jerald M. Simon

PDF Sheet Music - MP3 Download

$1.25 $.99

Last Updated (Friday, 14 May 2010 22:32)

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