Piano chords · Old-time stride
Softly As In A Morning Sunrise: easy piano accompaniment in letter notes
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- C minor
- 2/4
- 75 BPM
- 1928
- Tricky
Play the full song with sheet music
The accompaniment with every note named, bar by bar: the bar sheet shows each note as a bar on the staff with its letter inside, so you can accompany Softly As In A Morning Sunrise without reading music. The left hand plays kangaroo leaps (stride (2/4)) and the right hand marching chords.
Softly As In A Morning Sunrise accompaniment in letter notes
The G7 – Cm – Fm – Cm loop with kangaroo leaps in the left hand and marching chords in the right. Notes struck together are joined with a plus; C4 is middle C.
How to read the bar sheet
The player above shows the treble staff (right hand) over the bass staff (left hand). Every note is a bar as long as it sounds, at its place on the staff, with its name inside, and the music scrolls past a line that marks now. The chord names run along the top.
Start with the left hand alone at a slow speed, then the right, then both. When the letters feel easy, try the sheet music.
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Questions about Softly As In A Morning Sunrise
What are the letter notes for the Softly As In A Morning Sunrise piano accompaniment?
Bar by bar, both hands: the bar sheet on this page names every note of the accompaniment (C4 is middle C) and plays along. The loop is G7 – Cm – Fm – Cm, so the letters repeat with the chords.
What chords are in Softly As In A Morning Sunrise?
The loop is G7 – Cm – Fm – Cm (V7 – i – iv – i) in C minor, and the song ends on Ab – Bb – Cm.
What key is Softly As In A Morning Sunrise in?
C minor, at about 75 beats a minute in 2/4.
What does the left hand play in Softly As In A Morning Sunrise?
Kangaroo leaps: stride (2/4), a tricky pattern. It follows the chords, so the same shape works for every bar.
Is Softly As In A Morning Sunrise easy to play on piano?
It is a tricky one: learn the 4 chords as blocks first, then add the left hand, then the right, slowly.
Made from 2 arrangements of this song: the left and right hands are the patterns these scores repeat most.