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Now, on to today's episode.

Today we're talking about the classic minor jazz standard softly as in a morning sunrise.

We'll take a look at the chords to figure out the most efficient way to learn it,

as well as some harmonic secrets within the tune that will help us improvise over it.

Let's do this thing.

What's up, Brent here from Learn Jazz Standards, so musicians just like like you learn how to play jazz all while shortening the learning curve, no matter what instrument you play. Welcome to another quick win episode of the podcast. By the way, there's also a video version of this podcast over on Learn Jazz Standards.com. If you want to check it out there, follow along with the color-coded chords analysis I'll be talking with today.

But if you're listening to the audio version, not a problem.

You'll totally be able to follow along with us just fine.

So So Safleys in the Morning Sunrise is a classic jam session jazz standard.

It's a minor jazz standard and a really important one to know.

So if you're not familiar with it, here's what it sounds like. like. So that's the two A sections of Sophylase in a morning sunrise.

Now, the melody is really important to learn, and I would highly recommend doing it by ear.

Now, if you have no idea how to learn a melody

by ear that's completely brand new to you, never done it before, then I recommend using my list

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