Variations for Piano and Orchestra: I Got Rhythm

“I Got Rhythm” is a piece composed by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin and published in 1930, which became a jazz standard. Its chord progression, known as the “rhythm changes”, is the foundation for many other popular jazz tunes such as Charlie Parker’s and Dizzy Gillespie’s Bebop standard “Anthropology (Thrivin’ From a Riff)”.

How to Learn The Piano Part

Imagine the days prior to the world-wide web when people actually had to visit a store to buy their popular piano music tunes. Today, nobody has to even leave their home to begin playing common piano music right away, they just download it, pop it through their printer and these people can begin playing right away. Others still hated the idea of purchasing music from a music store, so these people just photocopied the scores from the library, but they still had to leave their homes!