Weekly Online Group Piano Teacher Lessons taught by Jerald Simon
Presented...exclusively for piano teachers!
Piano teachers will also learn how to TEACH music theory, improvisation, and composition. I refer to this as Theory Therapy™, Innovative Improvisation™ and Creative Composition™.
The lessons taught each Monday morning follow the schedule according to each week:
WEEK 1: COOL SONGS and ESSENTIAL PIANO EXERCISES
WEEK 2: Music Theory - Theory Therapy™ (the practical application of music theory)
WEEK 3: Improvisation - Innovative Improvisation™ (learn to play the same song 100 ways)
WEEK 4: Composition - Creative Composition™ (connect with the composer within YOU)
Lessons are taught on Monday mornings from 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM (MST - Mountain Standard Time - Utah, USA time). This is an hour and a half lesson each week. If you are unable to attend the live lessons, each lesson is recorded and will also be uploaded within your customer portal, so you can watch and rewatch any of the lessons at your convenience. Some piano teachers around the world are not able to attend the live lessons at all, but they watch the recordings the next day within their account.
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Professional Pianist (Former Piano Student)
As mentioned in the video above, after publishing my first two music books, my music studio more than doubled. Parents and other piano teachers sent their piano students who were not enjoying piano lessons to me hoping I could motivate and inspire them to keep playing the piano. The only problem was, with the majority of these new students not wanting to take piano lessons anymore, more than half of my studio now wanted to quit piano lessons. Some even said they actually hated the piano. Every lesson became drudgery, dread, and despair, and that is just what I was feeling during their piano lesson! I'm sure they felt worse than I did because they thought piano lessons were a waste of their time and felt they had better things to do. They did not see the value in playing the piano because they were not having FUN! Now I want piano students to work hard, push themselves, and learn to do difficult things. It takes persistence to learn to play the piano. It takes effort, practice, dedication, and hard work. But I believe it can and should also be a FUN and enjoyable process.
I had a problem and had to figure out how to motivate and inspire these piano students. If you are a piano teacher or a parent of a piano student, maybe you can relate to what I experienced in trying to motivate my piano students.
As explained in the video above, I began composing a piano solo for each individual piano student during their piano lesson in any style, key signature, time signature, and genre of his or her choosing. Some wanted faster music that sounded like pop, rock, jazz, blues, or boogie-woogie styles. Others wanted slower music that sounded more like new age, contemporary/classical, ballads, or hymns. I composed music my piano students wanted to play! After composing each piece I asked the students what they thought and almost without exception, every student said they thought the music sounded COOL! All of these pieces became known as COOL SONGS.
Parents and piano teachers began contacting me and asking me how they could begin using these COOL SONGS with their own piano students. My waiting list for my own piano studio exploded. Parents and teachers would be on a 3-5 year waiting list just to begin taking piano lessons from me so their students could have FUN piano lessons and use my COOL SONGS Series and my ESSENTIAL PIANO EXERCISES books.
I have compiled all of the various COOL SONGS I composed for my own piano students into a COOL SONGS Bundle to help motivate other piano students and share my COOL SONGS with piano teachers and piano students around the world! By signing up for monthly lessons, you will have access to these COOL SONGS as well.
These COOL SONGS are helping teen piano students and adults all over the world to learn music theory the FUN way and in the process have an enjoyable time taking piano lessons. The main three areas I try to focus on in my own teaching, my various master classes, workshops/seminars, musical speeches and in composing these various COOL SONGS are:
By signing up for our Weekly Online Group Piano Teacher Lessons, you will also have access to the Essential Piano Exercises PDF Series included in your order. There are currently five books in the series:
1. 100 Left Hand Patterns Every Piano Player Should Know,
2. Essential Piano Exercises Every Piano Player Should Know,
3. Essential Jazz Piano Exercises Every Piano Player Should Know,
4. Essential New Age Piano Exercises Every Piano Player Should Know, and
5. Essential Pop Piano Exercises Every Piano Player Should Know.
We will soon be coming out with 10 + additional books for this series and you will have access to each of those books as well - when they are released - as long as your current monthly subscription is ongoing and continuing: 1. Essential Fake Book Fundamentals Every Piano Player Should Know, 2. Essential ROCK Piano Exercises Every Piano Player Should Know, 3. 100 Chord Progressions Every Piano Player Should Know, and many more.
Level - Early Intermediate - Late Intermediate
Pages - 94 pages
Format - PDF book (you can buy the paper back on Amazon)
Retail Price - the paperback version of the book retails for $19.95 (this special PDF offer is the only place where you can buy this series as a PDF set)
Book Summary -
100 Left Hand Patterns Every Piano Player Should Know is essentially two books combined into one. The two sections are:
1. 100 Left Hand Patterns, and
2. 100 songs written in Fake Book format(only using the treble clef or right hand notes with chords written above each measure).
Learn how to play the 100 left hand patterns in the first half of the book, and then try to play all 100 songs written in Fake Book format 100 different ways in every key signature.
The left hand patterns are divided as follows: 1. Basic Left Hand Patterns, 2. Jazz, Blues, and Boogie-Woogie Left Hand Patterns, 3. Rock and Pop Left Hand Patterns, and 4. New Age and Contemporary Left hand Patterns.
There are a few pages of practical application and then five sections featuring 100 different songs in Fake Book format. These are the five sections: 1. Children's Songs, 2. American Folk Songs/Patriotic Songs, 3. Christmas Music, 4. Classical Music, and 5. Gospel/Spiritual Religious songs.
Level - Late Beginner/Early Intermediate - Late Intermediate
Pages - 288 pages
Format - PDF book (you can buy the paper back on Amazon)
Retail Price - the paperback version of the book retails for $29.95 (this special PDF offer is the only place where you can buy series as a PDF set)
Book Summary -
Essential Piano Exercises Every Piano Player Should Know is a big book of essential piano exercises in every key signature and in every inversion. Piano students need to learn the fundamental basics of playing the piano.
This book introduces piano students to intervals, pentascales, tetrachords, scales (major and minor), chords (triads, SUS chords {sus 4 and sus 2}, augmented {aug.}, diminished {dim.}, 6th, minor 6th, major 7th, minor major 7th, dominant 7th, minor 7th, minor 7th (flat 5), minor 7th (sharp 5), diminished 7th), chord progressions, and fun, cool piano exercises in all key signatures and inversions.
After presenting the traditional and essential piano exercises, Jerald presents a section featuring FUN and COOL exercises you won't find anywhere else. Jerald also explains why it is important to learn intervals, scales, and chords and then demonstrates what you can do once you have learned the theory. Jerald refers to it as the practical application of music theory. He often calls it "Putting FUN back into Piano FUNdamentals" (emphasis on the word FUN). Take your piano playing to a whole new level with these exercises in every key signature. Piano teachers are thrilled with the amount of exercises presented in this book.
Level - Early Intermediate - Advanced
Pages - 266 pages
Format - PDF book (you can buy the paper back on Amazon)
Retail Price - the paperback version of the book retails for $29.95 (this special PDF offer is the only place where you can buy series as a PDF set)
Book Summary -
In this book, Jerald teaches the following:
Key Signatures – page 6, Basic Music Intro/Review – page 12, Most Common Chords – page 22, Blues Pentascales – page 38, 12 Bar Blues – page 48, The Major Blues Scale – page 76, 2 – 5 – 1 (ii7 – V7 – I7) – page 88, Jazz Modes – page 98, Whole – Half – Half Walking Bass Pattern – page 105, Using the Chromatics Scale – page 110, Using Jazz Chords – page 116, The Boogie-Woogie – page 138, Using 7th Chords – page 170, Improv Lessons – page 198, Modal Jazz Improvisation – page 222, 9th Chords – page 237, Modulating from one Key to Another – page 244, Over 100 Measures of RH Riffs and Improv PatternsCreated from the Minor Blues Scale – page 248, and Over 100 Measures of RH Riffs and Improv Patterns Created from the Major Blues Scale – page 252.
The entire book follows a pattern of: 1. teaching the jazz music theory concept, 2. presenting exercises that focus on implementing and applying the jazz music theory concepts, and 3. demonstrating how the theory and and jazz exercises can be combined together to create actual jazz music by having the piano student play jazz music that was composed using the exact jazz theory concepts the student has just learned.
Level - Early Intermediate - Late Intermediate
Pages - 154 pages
Format - PDF book (you can buy the paper back on Amazon)
Retail Price - the paperback version of the book retails for $25.95 (this special PDF offer is the only place where you can buy series as a PDF set)
Book Summary -
Essential New Age Piano Exercises Every Piano Player Should Know is a book everyone can use to improve their understanding of new age basics, including left hand new age patterns, chord progressions, how to arrange, improvise, and compose in a New Age style, and learn original new age compositions for intermediate level piano students.
Essential New Age Piano Exercises Every Piano Player Should Know was created as one of the resources for the members of the Essential Piano Exercises Course.
Level - Early Intermediate - Late Intermediate
Pages - 262 pages
Format - PDF book (you can buy the paper back on Amazon)
Retail Price - the paperback version of the book retails for $29.95 (this special PDF offer is the only place where you can buy series as a PDF set)
Book Summary -
Essential POP Piano Exercises Every Piano Player Should Know is the fifth book in the Essential Piano Exercises Series.
Learn How to Play the Piano in a Pop Style Using Syncopation, POP Chord Progressions, Left Hand POP Patterns, and Essential POP Piano Exercises. The book includes 31 original POP piano solos composed by Jerald Simon that have been recorded and fully orchestrated (with drums, guitars, keyboard synths, orchestral instruments, and more). You can listen to the two pop albums, EFFORTLESS and PULSE on all music streaming sites.
Essential POP Piano Exercises Every Piano Player Should Know by Music Mentor Jerald Simon, is one of the books from the Music Motivation® Series (The Essential Piano Exercises Series).
Essential POP Piano Exercises Every Piano Player Should Know is a book everyone can use to improve their understanding of POP basics, how to play the piano in a pop style using syncopation, POP chord progressions, left hand patterns, and Essential POP Piano Exercises. Essential POP Piano Exercises Every Piano Player Should Know was created as one of the resources for the members of the Essential Piano Exercises Course (https://www.essentialpianoexercises.com/).
This book is dedicated to the many piano students, young and old alike, who have asked Jerald Simon over the years to release a book with all of the POP piano exercises, left hand patterns, chord progressions, and tips he feels are essential to help pianists learn how to play POP music on the piano. In this book, Jerald teaches pianists the basics of getting started in playing pop music on the piano. Jerald has composed 31 original pop pieces that he has included in the book that help teach left hand patterns and chord progressions, so students will be able to apply what they are learning.
Students can also listen to the music from this book on Spotify, Pandora, iTUNES, AMAZON, YOUTUBE, or any other streaming site. These fun POP piano exercises can be combined together to create actual pop music by having the piano student play the pop music Jerald composed using the exact pop theory concepts the student has just learned. Jerald also encourages students to try and compose pop music of their own.
You'll also have access to my Essential Piano Exercises Video Course (this is an additional payment of $129.95 if purchased separately). You will be joining over 10,000+ piano teachers and piano students worldwide who have purchased the PDF books as well as the video course.
When finalizing your order by clicking on the "Get Started Now" button below, you can also upgrade and add on the Essential Piano Exercises Spiral Bound Series for an additional $149.95 (you'll receive all of the PDF books instantly and then we'll ship out the five books from the Essential Piano Exercises series to you - we only offer FREE shipping in the United States). You can purchase all of Jerald's books as paperback books from Amazon or buy the spiral bound books from your local music store. If your local music store is not yet selling Jerald's books, they can CONTACT JERALD to begin selling his books in their store.
In the Essential Piano Exercises Course, I have already created hundreds of videos and am currently creating additional videos for each of the books. Every exercise will have a video lesson to help you learn how to play each exercise and original piano solos. Course members also have additional trainings I have done over the years. More videos and live piano lessons will continually be added to the course and you will have access to additional training videos as we do them. This course is a course that will continue to grow throughout the years. For a one time payment, you will have access to new content without needing a subscription. Your piano students will also be able to access the video lessons from the book within their own account.
The Essential Piano Exercises Course is $199.95 if purchased separately, but we are now giving a special discount for everyone who signs up as one of our Essential Piano Teachers today from this website. You can purchase the Essential Piano Exercises Course later for $199.95 at any time in the future at this link: https://www.essentialpianoexercises.com/course
The Essential Piano Exercises Course gives you the video lessons for each of the books in the Essential Piano Exercises series plus you will be able to attend a live monthly group piano lesson Jerald teaches on the first Friday of every month in a private Facebook group that is only for members of the Essential Piano Exercises Course. You will have lifetime access to these videos (past, present, and future). By joining this course, you also receive all of Jerald's books as PDF downloads. Everyone who purchases this course will also have access to 10 additional PDF books in the series that have yet to be created (plus the video lessons for those books).
"I did a lot of research trying to find the right piano course on the internet. When I finally signed up for Essential Piano Exercises, I was not disappointed. Vendors often over-promise and under-deliver. Refreshingly, I experienced the opposite. I can recommend this course wholeheartedly to any pianist who wants to learn to improvise, play by ear, and become unglued from sheet music. If you are prepared to put in the hours, this course will change the way you look at the keyboard." - Martin Reith
Learn how to teach music theory, improvisation, and composition to your piano students! Become an Essential Piano Teacher (We call them Music Mentors). COST: $29.97 (a recurring monthly tuition - this is an ongoing subscription)
These lessons are ongoing lessons! Attend a 1 and a half hour Live Piano Lesson taught by Jerald Simon each week. There are four lessons taught each month throughout the year.
When checking out, you will purchase the Weekly Online Group Piano Teacher Lessons taught by Jerald Simon - Presented...exclusively for piano teachers! for $29.97. You can check the boxes to add on the additional/optional upgrades. If you add on the Essential Piano Exercises Spiral Bound set, we will ship out your spiral bound set of 5 books today. You will have instant access to all PDF books, video lessons, MP3 minus tracks, etc..
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