For Health and Strength, Theme and Variations

I started this to put together some thoughts on how to help my students improv on this theme, but it got a little out of hand. I can’t imagine at what forum I would ever play my version, but here is my theme and variations on “For Health and Strength.”

My variations are:

1. Blues
2. Upside Down, Inside Out, and Backwards
3. Country-Western
4. Alberti Bass
5. Johann Strauss
6. Boogie-Woogie
7. Haunted House
8. Latin
9. Flowing Water
10. Bossa Nova
11. Bach Chorale
12. Persian
13. Native American
14. Debussy
15. John Cage
16. Chopin