"My purpose and mission in life is to motivate myself and others through my music and writing, to help others find their purpose and mission in life, and to teach values that encourage everyone everywhere to do and be their best." - Jerald Simon First and foremost, Jerald is a husband to his beautiful wife, Zanny, and a father to his wonderful children. Jerald Simon is the founder and president of Music Motivation®. He is a composer, author, poet, and Music Mentor/piano teacher (primarily focusing his piano teaching on music theory, improvisation, composition, and arranging). Jerald loves music, teaching, speaking, performing, playing sports, exercising, reading, writing poetry and self help books, gardening, and spending time with his wife, Zanny, and their children. Jerald created musicmotivation.com as a resource for piano teachers, piano students, and parents of piano students. In 2014 he began creating his monthly "Cool Songs" to help teach music theory - the FUN way by putting FUN back into theory FUNdamentals (musicmotivation.com/coolsongs). Jerald created a weekly group online piano lesson series to teach piano students around the world (essentialpianolessons.com). He is also the author of 27 music books from the Music Motivation® Series. He has also recorded and produced several albums and singles of original music. Jerald has also created piano course to help teach music theory, improvisation, and composition - essentialpianoexercises.com, using his best-selling piano series "Essential Piano Exercises Every Piano Player Should Know" ("100 Left Hand Patterns Every Piano Player Should Know," "Essential Piano Exercises Every Piano Player Should Know," "Essential Jazz Piano Exercises Every Piano Player Should Know," "Essential New Age Piano Exercises Every Piano Player Should Know," "Essential Pop Piano Exercises Every Piano Player Should Know" and "Essential Rock Piano Exercises Every Piano Player Should Know"). Jerald Simon is the author/poet of "The As If Principle" (motivational poetry), "Poetry that Motivates" and the book and CD (audio book) of "Perceptions, Parables, and Pointers.” He has created a motivational series of poetry and inspirational books (poetrythatmotivates.com) and has created a "Who Are You?" personal self help course for teens and young adults (empoweredbypositivity.com). Jerald Simon created a series of video piano lessons and music videos that he shares on YouTube.com/jeraldsimon. You can listen to his weekly podcast, "Music, Motivation, and More - The Positivity Podcast - with Jerald Simon" on any podcast platform.
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