Jerald Simon. Bells. 7 Fun Piano Solo arrangements of Jingle Bells for Intermediate - Advanced Piano Students. Music Mentor.

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2 Jerald Simon those Bells 7 Fun Piano Solo arrangements of Jingle Bells for Intermediate - Advanced Piano Students Music Mentor J e r a l d S i m o n Music Motivation Cool music that excites, entertains, and educates! visit follow Jerald on Faceook: suscrie to Jerald s YouTue page: Music Motivation ooks are designed to provide students with music instruction that will enale them to improve and increase their successes in the field of music. It is also intended to enhance appreciation and understanding of various styles of music from classical to azz, lues, rock, popular, new age, hymns, and more. The author and pulisher disclaim any liaility or accountaility for the misuse of this material as it was intended y the author. Copyright 2017 y Music Motivation - All Rights Reserved - International Copyright Secured. WARNING: The music, text, design, and graphics in this pulication are protected y copyright law. Any duplication in any form for any purpose is an infringement of U.S. copyright law.

3 I hope you enoy Jingle Those Bells. I want to help teach fun, cool piano concepts and skills aout improvisation y creating cool and fun arrangements of Jingle Bells for piano students. The pieces in this ook will help you learn fun, cool piano skills (music theory, technique, transposing, improvising, composing, etc.) through fun and upeat cool sounding piano solos arranged y me - your personal music mentor - Jerald Simon. Have fun with the music! Your Music Mentor Jerald Simon Introduction...3 This ook is dedicated to the many YouTue suscriers who watch my videos on my YouTue page (youtue.com/eraldsimon) Also, for my wife, Suzanne (Zanny), my sweet daughter, Summer, and my two sons, Preston, and Matthew. Jingle those Bells is a fun way to experiment with different left hand patterns and styles so you can take the same song and change it up any way you d like. You can take what you learn in this ook and apply it to any song. The Jingle Bell Ballad...8 New Age Jingle Bells...12 Broken Russian Jingle Bells...16 Boogie Woogie Jingle Bells...18 Barrel House Blues Jingle Bells s POP Jingle Bells s ROCK Jingle Bells...2 More est sellers y Jerald Learn more aout Jerald The front and ackground image is from the wesite: - Image Copyright istock.com/ orchee CONNECT with Jerald eraldsimon@musicmotivation.com CONTACT Music Motivation Music Motivation Cool music that excites, entertains, and educates! Music Motivation P.O. Box 1000 Kaysville, UT info@musicmotivation.com Copyright 2017 y Music Motivation All Rights Reserved - International Copyright Secured. No part of this ook may e copied, reproduced, or duplicated in any form y any mechanical, electronic or other means known or hereafter invented without written permission from the author, Jerald Simon. For more promotional excerpt permission, contact Music Motivation, P.O. Box 1000 Kaysville, UT eraldsimon@musicmotivation.com First Printing Printed in the United States of America Simon, Jerald - Music Motivation - Jingle those Bells - $12.9 US/ $1.9 Canada - Soft cover spiral ound ook - ISBN-13: , Lirary of Congress Control Numer: MM Music Motivation is a registered trademark

4 Welcome to Jingle those Bells y Jerald Simon In this ook there are 7 fun and cool sounding arrangements of the Christmas favorite: Jingle Bells. Each of the arrangements in this ook are in the key of C maor and were arranged and intended for intermediate to advanced piano students. The arrangements are presented to help piano students and piano teachers learn fun left hand patterns to enale them to azz up music of their own. Jerald first teaches the theory ehind the musical patterns and explains how simple it is to take any piece of music and make it your own - y arranging it and adding your own personal touch to the music. Jerald encourages students to e ale to play all music as it is written, ut that is only the starting point (in his opinion) to making music and adding your own personality to the piece. Once you can play any piece as it is written, then you can take it to the next level, which is the fun part, y changing keys, rhythms, styles, and sounds to etter connect with the music on a much more personal level. In order to do this, a few simple patterns can dramatically change the way the music sounds. It s quite a it easier than you think, it s very enoyale for the pianists and the listeners, and it is FUN to do! 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 e their est. - Jerald Simon A message from Jerald to piano students and parents: If you come to piano lessons each week and walk away only having learned aout music notation, rhythm, and dots on a page, then I have failed as a Music Mentor. Life lessons are ust as important, if not more important than music lessons. I would rather have you learn more aout goal setting and achieving, character, dedication, and personal improvement. To have you learn to love music, appreciate it, and play it, is a wonderful yproduct you will have for the rest of your life - a talent that will enrich your life and the lives of others. To ecome a etter musician is wonderful and important, ut to ecome a etter person is more important. As a Music Mentor I want to mentor students to e the very est they can e. If you choose not to practice, you essentially choose not to improve. This is true in any area of life. Everyone has the same amount of time allotted to them. What you choose to do with your time, and where you spend your time, has little to do with the activities eing done and more to do with the value attached to each activity. I elieve it s important to e well-rounded and have many diverse interests. I want students to enoy music, to learn to e creative and understand how to express themselves musically - either y creating music of their own, or interpreting the music of others - y arranging and improvising well known music. In addition, I encourage students to play sports, dance, sing, draw, read, and develop all of their talents. I want them to e more than musicians, I want them to learn to ecome well-rounded individuals. Aove all, I want everyone to continually improve and do their est. I encourage everyone to set goals, dream ig, and e the est they can e in whatever they choose to do. Life is full of wonderful choices. Choose the est out of life and learn as much as you can from everyone everywhere. I prefer eing called a Music Mentor ecause I want to mentor others and help them to live their dreams. Your life is your musical symphony. Make it a masterpiece! J e r a l d S i m o n Copyright 2017 y Music Motivation -

5 Many piano teachers, piano students, and parents of piano students ask me how or why I egan creating the Cool Songs from my Cool Songs Suscription (musicmotivation.com/coolsongs). It egan with my Cool Songs for Cool Kids Series (Primer Level and Books 1, 2, and 3), and my Cool Songs that ROCK! Series (ooks 1 and 2). To e honest, however, it actually egan long efore any of those ooks were created. I egan teaching piano lessons part time in 2003, I was newly married and was selling pianos in a piano store. I didn t start teaching full time as an independent piano teacher until Between 2003 and 2006 I had a few different sales os I did as well, while continuing to do things on the side for my music career. In 2006 I created my music company, Music Motivation, at first for my piano studio and for me as a performing musician. I then felt motivated to come out with two ooks ack to ack. The first ook I ever created was An Introduction to Scales and Modes. It is an in-depth tutorial of asic scales and modes in all key signatures. After that I came out with my second ook, Variations on Mary Had a Little Lam. This ook has nine different arrangements I created using the children s song, Mary Had a Little Lam. These are some of the arrangements in the ook: Mary Took Her Lam to a Swingin Jazz Clu, Mary s Lam Had the Blues, Mary Took Her Lam to a 0s Rock Concert, Mary and Her Lam Live with Indians, etc., etc., until the last arrangement of: Mary Took Her Lam to a Funeral. These ooks were created to help students learn the theory and the practical application of the music. As a result of these two ooks, my piano studio more than douled. At my most usy time in teaching, I had around 88 piano students. The maority were teenage oys (ages 11-19), and most of them wanted to quit piano lessons. Piano teachers and parents of piano students would send me their students who essentially wanted nothing more to do with the instrument. The parents and teachers said they didn t want their students to quit and asked me to try to motivate them to keep playing the piano (I guess that is what I get for naming my company Music Motivation ). The students would not play from any method ook past or present and would never suggest music they wanted to play. I needed to figure out how to reach these students and connect with them. I asked each of them what kind of music they enoyed and asked them to ring it so they could work on it. The maority would not do it. I then asked them to challenge me to create or compose a piano solo for them during their lesson. They all found this very entertaining. I would tell them to choose a style of music, key signature, and the time signature. With some pieces, such as Game Over from Cool Songs for Cool Kids ook 1, they even said I could only use four notes. It was a game for the students and a challenge for me. With each of these students, I composed a piano solo during their lesson time and even notated it in Finale. At the end of their lesson I printed off the music and sent it home with them. I challenged them to learn the piano solo and then let me know what they thought. I told them I would compose a new piece the following week during their next lesson for them. It worked! The following week, the students returned and I asked them if they had tried to play it. The maority of these students had not only tried to play it, ut had perfected the piece and said they were ready to challenge me to compose a new piano solo. I would accept their challenge and tell them they would need to play what I composed. I asked the students what they honestly thought aout the music and almost without exception, the students said they thought the music sounded cool. They told me they would play the piano more if they could have more cool sounding music like the piano solo I had composed. I appreciated their positive feedack. I told them I would emphasize the music theory in the cool song ecause they need to know their music theory, ut I also told them I wanted them to have fun learning these cool songs each week. That is how it all egan. All of the cool songs I had composed in each lesson were later compiled into Cool Songs for Cool Kids ooks 1, 2, and 3. Because of the great feedack of these ooks, I then created Cool Songs that ROCK! ooks 1 and 2 for older teenagers that were a little more advanced. I have my students play through all of the cool songs I create so I can receive their feedack. They know what they like and what sounds cool to them. I listen to and now receive feedack from many piano teachers, piano students, and parents of piano students around the world who tell me what they would like me to compose as well. Have fun with this music! - Jerald Copyright 2017 y Music Motivation -

6 You can watch Jerald play the Jingle Bell Ballad on YouTue.com/eraldsimon under the Jingle Those Bells playlist. Have fun learning to play this! g 10 1 Gently {m q = c 120} Œ. J Jingle Bell Ballad Skill - This arrangement has a pop love allad feel aout it. The left hand egins following a left hand pattern (e.g. C - G - C - D - E). Watch the syncopated rhythms and tied notes. Have fun with this!. P Ped. ad li g. J. g slight rit. g F g J J a tempo J J. Jerald Simon. Copyright 2017 y Music Motivation - All Rights Controlled and Administered y ASCAP International Copyright Secured All rights reserved including the right of pulic performance for profit J J J. F J J MM

7 You can watch Jerald play the Boogie-Woogie Jingle Bells on YouTue.com/eraldsimon under the Jingle Those Bells playlist. Have fun learning to play this! Boogie-Woogie Jingle Bells Skill - This arrangement features a fun oogie Boogie-Woogie left hand pattern played throughout the piece. The pattern is created y playing a roken octave interval followed y the 3rd, th, sharped th and th intervals then umping down an octave from the th and returning to the fifth (e.g. C C E F F# G G {down an octave} ack to G # n Swing! ŒÂ = Œ Ç Ó F # # 3 2 n n # Ó Ó n # n n # Copyright 2013 y Music Motivation - All Rights Controlled and Administered y ASCAP International Copyright Secured All rights reserved including the right of pulic performance for profit Jerald Simon # Œ. # Ó P # n n # MM

8 You can watch Jerald play the Barrel House Blues Jingle Bells on YouTue.com/eraldsimon under the Jingle Those Bells playlist. Have fun learning to play this! Barrel House Blues Jingle Bells Skill - Try playing this fun left hand pattern in all keys moving up in half steps! Go on, try it and see! 7 10 Steady ROCK/Groove feel {m q = c 120} F n n. n n 1 n > n > > n n n n > n n. n > n. n f n > n > n n n > n Copyright 2013 y Music Motivation - All Rights Controlled and Administered y ASCAP International Copyright Secured All rights reserved including the right of pulic performance for profit Jerald Simon nw n n n > > n n n n n n > n n > n MM

9 You can watch Jerald play the 80s Pop Jingle Bells on YouTue.com/eraldsimon under the Jingle Those Bells playlist. Have fun learning to play this! 8 80s Pop Jingle Bells Skill - The left hand is playing a roken octave interval and the right hand has a fun pop feel aout it as you play eighth notes followed y eighth rests in a fun off-eat syncopated pattern. 12 Upeat Tempo - 80s Pop Feel {m q = c } Ó F 1 1 Œ Ped. ad li n Ó Œ. f n Œ. Jerald Simon Œ. Œ. Copyright 2013 y Music Motivation - All Rights Controlled and Administered y ASCAP International Copyright Secured All rights reserved including the right of pulic performance for profit Œ MM

10 You can watch Jerald play the 0s Rock Jingle Bells on YouTue.com/eraldsimon under the Jingle Those Bells playlist. Have fun learning to play this! s Rock Jingle Bells Skill - This arrangement is the most difficult one in the ook which is why I put this last. One of the main difficulties with this arrangement is keeping the left hand going while the right hand plays. The left hand essentially needs to go on auto pilot where you don t even think aout it! # # F 7 # n 0s ROCK q = 130 C 7 F n 2 n n n n n n 1 2 n n 1 # G 7 # 2 n C 7 1 n 2 # n n # Jerald Simon n n n C ma6 n n n n n n. n Copyright 2013 y Music Motivation - All Rights Controlled and Administered y ASCAP International Copyright Secured All rights reserved including the right of pulic performance for profit MM

11 Testimonials aout Jerald here are a few testimonials from musicians and piano teachers Jerald s hymn arrangements are as eautiful as they are musically interesting. I m sure people are going to love hearing them in church meetings or wherever they are played. - Jon Schmidt - Piano Guys Jerald is a wonderful human eing who has inspired not only me to e a etter pianist, ut hundreds of other people. Keep up all the great work Jerald. - Paul Cardall - Music Producer, Film Composer, Recording Artist What I love aout arrangements of well-sung songs done y various artists is that one can hear the pianist s personality come through in a very real and intimate way. Jerald s passion for life and his eliefs comes through in his unique and distinctive arrangements of these well-known religious hymns. - Kurt Bestor (Owner, Kurt Bestor Music) Jerald Simon s arrangement of A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief is peaceful and soothing. It is not rushed, allowing lines to reathe and resolve. He continues to produce music that will ring spiritual comfort to those who are listening. - Josh Wright (concert pianist and online piano teacher) Jerald Simon is a rilliant musician, teacher, and performer, with a fascinating story to tell. If you re interested in learning how to improvise or compose music, e sure to check out his ooks. - Brandon Pearce - Owner, Music Teacher s Helper, LLC Jerald s motivational poetry, writing and music education ooks are a true expression of Jerald s winning personality and innovation. He is a Utah treasure. - David Burger, Music critic, arts reporter, Salt Lake Triune Not only do you get a song per week to learn, ut all of the fixings (supplements) to go with it! Backing tracks, PDFs and also a step y step video going though each song. Wow! It s a great value for the price. I think students would enoy playing these (cool) songs. Teachers and students shouldn t think twice aout learning aout (Jerald s) compositions and letting themselves e inspired y his musical style. Don t delay - ump in today! - Jeff Willie - Piano Teacher My favorite thing aout the Cool Songs is the music theory that is introduced in the YouTue videos. So many times, students don t understand the why ehind theory until they have een taking lessons for several years. The videos introduce theory concepts in a way that compliments the song, and then gives students a reason to actually use it! Thanks again! -Amanda W Smith (Piano Teacher - Founder of modernmusicteaching.com Copyright 2017 y Music Motivation - MM

12 Perceptions, Parales, and Pointers y Jerald Simon (read more at this link): com/shop/motivationalself-help-ooks/perceptions-parales-and-pointers-y-erald-simon/ What do you really want to do with your time What is your mission in life Where have you een, and where would you like to go What are your dreams, your hopes, your wishes If you could do anything in the world, what would it e The main goal in writing down these perceptions, parales, and pointers, and in creating this ook in general, is to present ideas that will help get people thinking, imagining, planning, creating, and actively participating in life. The As If Principle (motivational poetry) y Jerald Simon features 222 original motivational poems written y Simon to inspire and motivate men, women, usinesses, organizations, leaders, mentors, advisers, teachers, and students. The poems were written to teach values and encourage everyone everywhere to do and e their est. (read more at this link): MM Copyright 2017 y Music Motivation -

13 Jerald s Alums Singles are availale from all online music stores Jerald continually produces and releases new Cool Songs availale for all piano students and piano teachers on his wesite (musicmotivation.com). Each new Cool Song is ed to Music Motivation mentees (piano teachers and piano students) according to their preferred suscription. See which suscription is the est fit for you and for your piano students (if you are a piano teacher) y visiting: At Music Motivation, I strive to produce the est quality products I can to help musicians of all ages etter understand music theory (Theory Therapy), improvisation (Innovative Improvisation), and composition (Creative Composition). I try to tailor my products around the needs of piano teachers and piano students of all ages - from eginning through advanced and would love to receive your feedack aout what I can do to etter help you teach and learn. Let me know if there is a type of piano music, music ook, fun audio or video tutorial, or any other educational product you would like to see in the field of music (principally the piano), ut have not yet found, that would help you teach and learn the piano etter. Please contact me. I look forward to your comments and suggestions. Thank you.

14 Jerald is continually coming out with new ooks and has multiple ooks planned to e released each year. Check musicmotivation.com for new ooks, CD, singles, and more. Check out these est sellers y Jerald Simon visit musicmotivation.com to purchase, or visit your local music store - Chesro music is the national distriutor for all Music Motivation ooks. Contact Chesro Music Co. if you are a store ( )

15 Learn more aout J e r a l d S i m o n Visit 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 and encourage everyone everywhere to do and e their est. - Jerald Simon First and foremost, Jerald is a husand to his eautiful wife, Zanny, and a father to his wonderful children. Jerald Simon is the founder and president of Music Motivation (musicmotivation.com). He is a composer, author, poet, and Music Mentor/piano teacher (primarily focusing his piano teaching on music theory, and encouraging students with improvisation, composition, and arranging). Jerald loves music, teaching, speaking, performing, playing sports, exercising, gardening (he s a wannae gardener) reading, writing poetry and self help ooks, 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. He is the author/poet of The As If Principle (222 motivational poems), and Perceptions, Parales, and Pointers. He is also the author of 20 music ooks from the Music Motivation Series (over 200 plus original piano solos etween the ooks) including the popular series: Cool Songs for Cool Kids (pre-primer, primer level, and volumes 1, 2, and 3) and Cool Songs that Rock (ooks 1 and 2) which all feature original piano music Jerald has composed primarily with teenage oys in mind. He has also recorded and produced several alums and singles of original music as well as hymn arrangements. In 201, Jerald started a Cool Songs annual suscription on his wesite where he produces and releases one new Cool Song for the piano every week with minus tracks (accompaniment parts), the PDF download, MP3 downloads, and a YouTue video tutorial where he teaches the Cool Song and music theory the fun way. Watch his videos on his wesite at and check out his videos at Jerald also presents to various music schools, groups, and associations throughout the country doing various workshops, music camps, master classes, concerts and firesides to inspire and motivate teens, adults, music students and teachers. He enoys teaching piano students aout music theory, improvisation, and composition. He refers to himself as a Music Mentor and encourages music students to get motivated y music and to motivate others through music of their own. SPECIALTIES: Composer, Author, Poet, Music Mentor, Piano Teacher (azz, music theory, improvisation, composition, arranging, etc.), Motivational Speaker, and life coach. Visit to ook Jerald as a speaker/performer. Visit to print off FREE piano resources for piano teachers and piano students.

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