{"id":1964,"date":"2014-02-26T23:16:21","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T04:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pianowizardacademy.com\/campus\/?p=1964"},"modified":"2025-06-24T08:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T13:32:08","slug":"motivate-piano-students-play-piano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pianowizardacademy.com\/campus\/blog\/chris-salter\/motivate-piano-students-play-piano\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Motivate Piano Students to Play the Piano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Fq3UV4masz8?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/code><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In this video, Music Mentor\u2122 Jerald Simon presents a workshop he gave at Day Murray Music (<a title=\"http:\/\/www.daymurraymusic.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.daymurraymusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/www.daymurraymusic.com<\/a>) for piano teachers in Utah, on the subject of \"How to motivate piano students to play the piano - especially teenage boys\"!<\/p>\n<p>Watch Jerald introduce some of the books he has created including fun, cool, original piano solos he has composed to motivate and inspire piano students (especially teenage boys).<\/p>\n<p>Jerald discusses teaching music theory the FUN way - through fun, cool piano music. In addition, Jerald performs several original piano solos from his best-selling series: \"Cool Songs for Cool Kids\u2122\" (primer level, and books 1, 2, and 3), as well as several of his other books (including his most recent, best-selling book: \"Cool Songs that ROCK!\u2122\" - specifically created with teenage boys in mind)!<\/p>\n<p>Visit this link to learn more about the fun, cool piano series: \"Cool Songs for Cool Kids\u2122\": http:\/\/musicmotivation.com\/coolsongsforkids<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In this video, Music Mentor\u2122 Jerald Simon presents a workshop he gave at Day Murray Music (http:\/\/www.daymurraymusic.com) for piano [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":407,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[250,17],"class_list":["post-1964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chris-salter","tag-motivation","tag-piano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pianowizardacademy.com\/campus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pianowizardacademy.com\/campus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pianowizardacademy.com\/campus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pianowizardacademy.com\/campus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/407"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pianowizardacademy.com\/campus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pianowizardacademy.com\/campus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pianowizardacademy.com\/campus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pianowizardacademy.com\/campus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pianowizardacademy.com\/campus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}