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 (https://www.essentialpianoexercises.com/). This book is dedicated to the many piano students, young and old, who have asked Jerald Simon over the years to release a book about learning how to play, arrange, and compose in a new age style on the piano. The entire book follows a pattern of: 1. Teaching the new age music theory concept, 2. Presenting exercises that focus on implementing and applying the new age music theory concepts, and 3. Demonstrating how the theory and new age exercises can be combined together to create actual new age music by having the piano student play original new age music that was composed by Jerald Simon using the exact new age theory concepts the student has just learned. Essential New Age Piano Exercises Every Piano Player Should Know is part of the Essential Piano Exercises Series. The first book in this series is titled Essential Piano Exercises Every Piano Player Should Know. It was followed by 100 Left Hand Patterns Every Piano Player Should Know. The third book in the series is titled, Essential Jazz Piano Exercises Every Piano Player Should Know, and this is the fourth book in the Essential Piano Exercises Series. Other books in this series will soon be available as well (e.g. Essential Pop Piano Exercises Every Piano Player Should Know, Essential Rock Piano Exercises Every Piano Player Should Know, 100 Chord Progressions Every Piano Player Should Know, 100 Improvised Licks Every Piano Player Should Know, etc.). You can learn more about the Essential Piano Exercises Course at this link: https://www.essentialpianoexercises.com/ - This course is often used with The COOL SONGS Series also created by Jerald Simon - https://musicmotivation.com/coolsongs/ In order to better help piano teachers, piano students, and parents of piano students effectively learn music theory and what to do with that knowledge, thus bridging the gap between learning the scales and chords and using them to enhance music and make music of your own, I have created a course featuring step-by-step piano lesson videos to accompany this book: "Essential Jazz Piano Exercises."  You can visit  ESSENTIALPIANOEXERCISES.COM  to learn more about this course and gain access to hundreds of videos where I demonstrate how to play these exercises and many others, and then teach what you can do with them. Learning the theory is good, but knowing what to do with it is the practical application where I demonstrate how to use music theory to arrange, to  improvise, to compose, and to create music of your own. More important than simply learning the theory is the practical application of  why  we are learning these scales and chords, and  what  we can do with them once we have learned them. It is the hands on approach to teaching music theory. In addition, I explain the theory in practical and simple terms so everyone can easily understand and know music theory for what it can do to help them in three primary ways: (1) sight-read piano music better and faster as a result of knowing the scales and chords, (2) take their music playing and music creating to the next level so they can improvise, arrange, and compose music of their own, and (3) ultimately feel comfortable and excited to learn music theory - the "FUN way!" "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 A message from Jerald to piano students and parents: If you come to piano lessons each week and walk away only having learned about music notation, rhythm, and dots on a page, then I have failed as a Music Mentor. Life lessons are just as important, if not more important than music lessons. I would rather have you learn more about goal setting and achieving, character, dedication, and personal  improvement. To have you learn to love music, appreciate it, and play it, is a wonderful byproduct you will have for the rest of your life - a talent that will enrich your life and the lives of others. To become a better musician is wonderful and important, but to become a better person is more important. As a Music Mentor I want to mentor students to be the very best they can be. 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 yo