Diminished pattern that repeats itself walking up the diminished scale

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You've probably heard a Jazz musician play this diminished pattern before, am I right? Anyway, this diminished pattern has a simple pattern to it, but I found the diminished Jazz pattern to be a little difficult in terms of finger flexibility. You'll have to try the Jazz lick out for yourself to see if you are experiencing the same thing or not.



Here is a sound sample played on trumpet:

How to memorize this diminished lick in 12 keys:

Since this pattern is diminished, you'll technically only have to memorize the lick in 3 keys depending on which note you start on. As you can see in the above example, this diminished lick repeats the same pattern over and over again going up one scale degree at a time on the diminished scale.

The best way I've found to memorize this diminished pattern in 12 keys is to think I'm doing a variation of the diminished scale which is: (1 2 b3 4 2 b3 1 2 b3 4). Basically every other minor 3rd of the diminished triad is played in this diminished pattern. Of course, I don't think in scale degrees to memorize this pattern. Instead I think of the diminished scale in general knowing that I'm repeating the same thing over and over again.

Find the best way for yourself to get this lick down in all the keys, feel free to comment what works best for you below.

Valued Opinions is a free Survey Company that pays

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/zuIFX)
I've been a member of Valued Opinions now for almost a year. I took about 10 or 15 surveys with Valued Opinions and wasn't sure how much I've earned since I became a free survey member. Well, I logged into my account today and saw that my balance was a little over $40.00. Guess what, you can cash out after you earn a minimum of $20.00. So I went ahead and did just that.

Valued Opinions doesn't pay you in the form of a check, instead you choose a gift card option in order to receive payment. I chose the Visa pre-paid gift card option so I can use the money any way I want or need to use it. Once I receive the $20.00 gift card I will make a copy of it and display the gift card as payment proof that Valued Opinions is really a legit survey company that pays their members.

Typically, you can expect to earn anywhere from $2.00 to $5.00 per survey with Valued Opinions. I'm not going to lie to you. Surveys are not easy, they are very tedious, repetitious, and of course, very boring. I find myself letting survey earning opportunities pass me by everyday because I just don't feel like I have the time. I regret saying this, but a lot of times I don't feel like the survey is even worth my time.

Why do I speak of such negativity? Well, because the survey sites I recommend to you are all free to join, so sign up with them anyway and wait for the higher paying survey opportunities to come your way. That's my rule of thumb. I don't know about you, but spending an estimated 30 minutes of my time taking a survey for a measly dollar, is really not worth it to me. What's your opinion on that matter?

Take a look at some more free survey companies to join and take advantage of the free money today.

Randy Brecker Flugelhorn solo on Blue Moon

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/ial7P)
I wanted to share this Flugelhorn solo Randy Brecker took on the tune entitled Blue Moon. I really like Randy Brecker's style. Very outside, he has an interesting tone with a subtle double buzz, but that's OK, it's Jazz. That's Randy Brecker's trumpet style and I like it! Feel free to comment on this post to let everyone know what you thought of this Randy Brecker flugelhorn solo.

The Cheap Visitors affiliate program pays to sign up

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Cheap Visitors is a free affiliate program, similar to Buy Real Visitors, that pays their affiliates $5.00 to sign up with them. Since you can join Cheap Visitor's affiliate program absolutely free, I though I would make sure to introduce this online earning opportunity to you.

The more free opportunities you can get your hands on in the online world the better. Making money online has a lot to do with taking advantage of free affiliate sites, not your typical business opportunities that cost you a one time fee to join, or even worse, a monthly membership fee to stay active as a member in order to receive on going commissions.

In a nutshell, I wanted to go over the benefits of joining the Cheap Visitors affiliate program:

• $5.00 free for signing up, but you already knew that.


• $2.00 for every sale you make.


• $1.00 for every sale an affiliate of yours makes.


• You don't need a website to promote Cheap Visitors.


• Fast payments (so Cheap Visitors says).


• You can buy visitors (traffic) to your websites as well (start off as low as $9.99).

The bad news about Cheap Visitors is that you have to earn at least $100.00 before you'll receive your first payment. In Cheap Visitor's terms of service, they say they will pay you through Paypal within 48 hours, but at the same time say to allow up to 30 days to be paid. I don't know about you, but why would it ever take that long? If you know, please add a comment to this post, because I really don't get it.

Take a look at some more free affiliate sites that pay you to sign up and take advantage of some more free money.

Terrel Stafford Jam Session trumpet solo on Four

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/FwUDJ)
I found another good Jazz trumpet video from the Vitoria Jazz Festival back in 2006. Luckily, this time I was able to embed the video into my site. This trumpet player's name is Terrel Stafford. He definitely took a very nice Jazz trumpet solo on the tune entitled Four by Miles Davis. Terrel Stafford plays this trumpet solo with a lot of energy, I hope you enjoy this Jazz clip as much as I did.

Global NPN offers a single opt-in autoresponder service

(My Original Blog Post: http://www.signupandmakemoney.com/blog/2009/06/global-npn-offers-a-single-opt-in-autoresponder-service/)
If you are anything like me, you've probably done your fair share of searching online for an autoresponder service that doesn't require your subscribers to double opt-in. Not that it isn't a good idea to have all your subscribers double opt-in to your mailing list, but sometimes you get leads for various business opportunities that have already entered their name and e-mail address. This essentially means they are ready to receive e-mail from you, their potential sponsor. But you don't have the time, nor do you want to have the time to send every lead you get a personal welcome e-mail manually.

If you're smart, which I know you are, you would like to just copy and paste that lead's name and e-mail address into your autoresponder and then they will automatically receive a series of 10 to 20 pre-written personal sale e-mails from you where the subscriber can opt-out at anytime and you're not breaking any spamming laws.  The only problem is that there really aren't any autoresponder services that will offer single opt-in for any of the e-mail campaigns you could get through them.

I have found a solution to this single opt-in problem with Global NPN. Global NPN does offer a service to manually enter in leads you get from various business opportunities you may be advertising. The name of this service is called Global NPN's Multi Sponder. You are able to set up 10 different campaigns. I use it for leads I get with Global Domains International, Reality-Networkers, and of course for the Global NPN opportunity itself (especially since Global NPN is my favorite). Global NPN also offers capture page sign up forms that do require double opt-in. This is essential for leads generated on a custom web form that you have created yourself. But Global NPN's Multi Sponder autoresponder service solved all my problems with staying connected with all my leads "legally".

Global NPN is so much more than just an autoresponder service for your online business and Global NPN's Internet marketing tools only cost $10.75 a month. For that small, tiny fee you'll be able to take advantage of:

• Lead blasters.


• Ad trackers.


• 3 banners rotated in Global NPN's network.


• Downline builder for 3 of your favorite affiliate sites or websites.


• URL rotators.


• Business opportunity.


• Refer 2 other people to Global NPN and your $10.75 monthly membership is now free (50% residual commissions).


• Ability to make custom capture pages.


• Autoresponder for your main websites (double opt-in).


• Multi Autoresponder for your various business opportunities (single opt-in).


• Get a 30 day free trial to see for yourself before you invest any real capital into Global NPN

So there you have it. Take advantage of the Global NPN free 30 day trial and see if this is the right autoresponder service for you. Hope Global NPN will solve your Internet marketing problems like it did for me.

Search Big Daddy search engine is giving $50.00 in free advertising for signing up

(My Original Blog Post: http://www.signupandmakemoney.com/blog/2009/06/search-big-daddy-search-engine-is-giving-5000-in-free-advertising-for-signing-up/)
I was checking out my Google Analytics account today and noticed I got some free hits from Search Big Daddy. I thought to myself, what is this site? So I decided to check out Search Big Daddy. To my utter amazement I discovered that Search Big Daddy is currently giving away $50.00 in free advertising dollars just for signing up with their search engine. It didn't take me long to go ahead and sign up.

Search Big Daddy has a good thing going. You are able to choose a distinct keyword for the site you are submitting for free that will give you a top position in Search Big Daddy's search engine. Of course the downfall is that this is a first come first serve opportunity. I was lucky enough to get a decent keyword free money for signing up, but I wanted free money to be the keyword of my choice. You can't get everything you want in life though, now can you?

Search Big Daddy is a not only a place where you can sign up for free and submit your website and ad to their search engine. You can also participate in their free affiliate program and refer other webmasters so they can take advantage of $50.00 in free advertising and the ability to choose a special keyword for their website.

Refer other free affiliates to Big Daddy Pays and earn a 10% commission off of all their listing advertisements in the search engine. One odd thing I noticed about Big Daddy Pays is that they are not only a search engine. It looks like Big Daddy Pays offers video services, social network services, blogging services, and affiliate program, and so much more that I'm getting tired of writing and you'll have to take a look at Search Big Daddy for yourself to get a hands on experience of what I'm talking about.

Take a look at some more free advertising sign up bonuses and take advantage of some more free hits to your website right away.