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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.
in this episode:
1. Short demo 2. The best way to learn the melody 3. Identifying the key - The first A section 4. Things you can do with a minor ii-V-I progression 5. A tritone substitution 6. Chord substitution options 7. Associating the melody of the song with the chords 8. The second A section 9. The relative major key 10. Diminished substitution 11. Passing diminished chord 12. The best way to improvise on a dim7 chords 13. The bridge
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