February 2017

JAM OF THE
MONTH
Track
Beyond The Quay
from Alex Hutchings Custom Fusion Series 2

JTC SAYS
This fantastic track is from Alexs fantastic Custom Fusion 2 package, if you want to hear his solo
over the track (plus 4 over equally amazing tracks) then you can pick it up in the JTC store.

The title is a pun... the piece moves through several keys, so if youre learning the chords, take your
time!

Here are a few soloing ideas you could try based on the note choices Alex made in his solo!

Bars 1-9 This section is essentially in B minor, do you could use Aeolian, aka natural minor,
throughout (B C# D E F# G A). This scale wouldnt fit perfectly over the Bm6 chords, which contain a
G# note, but you can get around this problem by not playing either G or G# notes at those points.
This use of ambiguity is a great musical tool.

Bars 10-13 This is the same chord pattern as bars 2-5, but transposed to D minor. So try using D
Aeolian,
Bars 14-17 Another dramatic key change, and were now dealing with a I-vi-IV-V progression (think
Blue Moon and lots of other 50s ballads) in Db. Using the obvious Db major scale (Db Eb F Gb Ab
Bb C) here will work but you can create a Dbmaj7 chord by using the Lydian mode (same scale but
with G instead of Gb).
Bars 18-21 This series of four major and major 7 chords gives the effect of changing key every bar.
Use your ear and experiment with trying out major and Lydian scales over these chords.
Bars 22-25 A similar thing happens with the first four chords, but here theres very little time to
explore each scale. Try working around chord notes and joining them with chromatic links for a
super hip fusion sound!
Theres more room for exploration on the C13#11, and the most obvious choice for any dominant 7
chord with a sharpened 11th is one of the coolest scales known to man... the Lydian dominant (C D E
F# G A Bb). This is the fourth mode of the G melodic minor, but you can also think of it as a Lydian
with a flattened 7th (or a Mixolydian with a sharpened 4th, as that relates to the Mixolydian youd use
over standard dominant 7 chords).
Bars 26-33 Were back to the first section in B minor again!
Bars 34-37 The D minor section again...
Bars 38-41 In Alexs version he really opened up over this second Db section with some challenging
sweep arpeggios! Why not try a similar approach and dust off your chops too!

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 BEYOND THE QUAY
(Chord chart)

||Bm7 Bm6 | % | Gmaj7 A/G | Em7 F#m7 Gmaj7 A11 |

Dmaj7 Dmaj9 | Bm7 B11 | D/G | Em7 F#m7 Gmaj7 A7 |

Dm7 Dm6 | % | Bbmaj7 C/Bb | Gm7 Am7 Bbmaj7 C11 |

Dbmaj7 | Bbm7 | Gbmaj7 | Ebm7 Fm7 Gbmaj7 Ab11 |

A | F | Abmaj7 | Emaj7 |
C/F A/D | Bb/Eb G/C | C13+11 | % |

Bm7 Bm6 | % | Gmaj7 A/G | Em7 F#m7 Gmaj7 A11 |

Dmaj7 Dmaj9 | Bm7 B11 | D/G | Em7 F#m7 Gmaj7 A7 |

Dm7 Dm6 | % | Bbmaj7 C/Bb | Gm7 Am7 Bbmaj7 C11

Dbmaj7 | Bbm7 | Gbmaj7 | Ebm7 Fm7 Gbmaj7 Ab11 |

A | F | Abmaj7 | Emaj7 |
C/F A/D | Bb/Eb G/C | C13+11 | % |
Bm7 ||

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