Sand Castles features 10 soothing new age and contemporary piano pieces composed by Jerald Simon for the intermediate to late intermediate piano student. Here are the 10 piano pieces: 1. Arise 2. Sand Castles 3. Summer Nights 4. Ethereal 5. Summer Sunrise 6. Flip-side 7. Daylight 8. Forsaken 9. Twirling 10. Easy Does It! All 10 of these cool songs were composed by Jerald Simon as part of his "Cool Songs Individual Piano Student and the Individual and Platinum Piano Teacher packages available on his website (musicmotivation.com)." This is Jerald's description of the Cool Songs he's composed to motivate piano students: "Jerald Simon composes Cool Songs to teach students the theory of the new piece with fun examples/exercises that demonstrate the practical application of learning music theory, so students can begin making music of their own. Each new Cool Song is emailed to all Music Motivation(R) mentees according to their preferred subscription." If you would like to learn more about Jerald's weekly Cool Songs from his annual subscription, you can visit his website at musicmotivation.com/coolsongs for more information.
About the Author: Jerald Simon - Music Mentor, Composer, Author, Poet and Life Coach First and foremost, Jerald is a husband to his beautiful wife, Zanny, and a father to his wonderful children. Jerald Simon is the founder of Music Motivation(R) (musicmotivation.com), a company he formed to provide music instruction through workshops, giving speeches and seminars, and concerts and performances in the field of music and 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 spending time with his wife, Zanny, and their children. In addition, he loves music, teaching, speaking, performing, playing sports, exercising, reading, writing poetry and self help books, and gardening. Jerald created musicmotivation.com as a resource for piano teachers, piano students, and parents of piano students. In 2008 he began creating his Cool Songs to help teach music theory - the FUN way by putting FUN back into theory FUNdamentals. Jerald has also filmed hundreds of piano lesson video tutorials on his YouTube page (youtube.com/jeraldsimon). He is the author/poet of "The As If Principle" (motivational poetry), and the books "Perceptions, Parables, and Pointers", "Motivation in a Minute", and "Who Are You?". Jerald is also the author of 21 music books from the Music Motivation(R) Series and has also recorded and produced several albums and singles of original music. If you would like to learn more about Jerald's Cool Songs from his Cool Songs Packages, you can visit his website at musicmotivation.com/coolsongs for more information. "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