Melodic Ryan Kisor trumpet solo on the tune Candy

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/xrWYT)
I really enjoy listening to Ryan Kisor take solos on the trumpet. His trumpet solo on the tune Candy from The Sidewinder album is very melodic sounding and fun to sing or hum along with.

Ryan Kisor nails all the changes in this Candy trumpet solo and there are a quite a few Jazz licks to take advantage of as well.

Candy is a basic rhythm changes tune where the bridge of the tune progresses in fourths. I love tunes like these because they are what most Jazz standards use.

I would love to hear what you think of Ryan Kisor's solo.

Feel free to comment on this post.

Candy Trumpet Solo - Ryan Kisor

How to align Chikita ads better on your Wordpress blog

(My Original Blog Post: http://mywebmastertips.com/align-chikita-ads-better-on-wordpress-blog/)
Chikita ads aren't going to look out of alignment on every Wordpress blog, but some blogs, due to their style sheet, will make the Chikita Wordpress plugin look a little bit out of alignment. If this is the case for you, don't worry, it's an easy css fix depending on your needs.

Whether you place the Chikita ad on the top or bottom of your post. You might want to center it, or give the Chikita ad just a little bit more padding on the bottom.

Here's what you gotta do. Log into your Wordpress blog back office. Go to Plugins, then click on Editor. Next find the Chikita Premium plugin. You are going to what to edit the premium.php file. Look for this code (it is the settings for the javascript).

$PREMIUM_DEFAULTS['template'] ='<!-- Chitika|Premium - WordPress Plugin --><div class="chitika-adspace {%placement%}"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
ch_client = {%client%};
ch_type = "mpu";
ch_width = {%width%};
ch_height = {%height%};
ch_color_bg = {%background%};
ch_color_title = {%titlecolor%};
ch_color_site_link = {%titlecolor%};
ch_color_text = {%textcolor%};
ch_non_contextual = 4;
ch_vertical = "premium";
ch_font_title = {%font%};
ch_font_text = {%font%};
ch_sid = {%channel%};
var ch_queries = new Array( );
var ch_selected=Math.floor((Math.random()*ch_queries.length));
if ( ch_selected < ch_queries.length ) { ch_query = ch_queries[ch_selected]; } //--></script>
<script src="http://scripts.chitika.net/eminimalls/amm.js" type="text/javascript"></script></div>';

Now, simply add these to commands to the div, (you can add more commands if you'd like to).

style="padding-bottom:8px;" align="center"

Now the div's commands will look something like this depending on your needs.

<div class="chitika-adspace {%placement%}" style="padding-bottom:8px;" align="center">

That's pretty much it. Unfortunately, when an upgrade comes along, you will have to make these changes again.

Are Text Ad Exchanges the next sign up bonus fad?

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/HYn6P)
I usually don't group sign up bonus sites together like this because I like to write a little bit about what makes the free sign up bonus site unique. In this case, I've seen so many Text Ad Exchanges pop up that are offering $5.00 sign up bonuses that I seriously don't have the time and patience to write individually about them.

If you take a close look at all these Text Ad Exchanges, you'll notice they are all pretty much the same. What would be the point of writing about each one individually when they clearly aren't individual and or unique by any means?

This could either be a good thing or a bad thing. It kind of reminds me of Bux sites. I remember those popping up all over the place a little over a year ago. Now you don't see too many new ones because people figured out that a bunch of amateur hacks were running the Bux sites.

Are these Text Ad Exchanges the new fad when it comes to ripping people off? I don't know. I only write about these sites to let you know there is some free money for signing up, but I highly recommend that you definitely do not invest too much time or any money in the sites. You have to do your own due diligence.

I ran into these new sign up bonus sites over the past month. (You have to request the bonus by contacting each site's admin individually.)

• Crown Ads Text Ad Exchange = $5.00


• Sunset Text Ad Exchange = $5.00


• People Ads Ad Exchange = $5.00


• Wheel of Fortune Ads = $5.00


• PC 2 PC Ads Exchange = $5.00


• One Stop Solos = $5.00


• Post it Ads = $5.00

Total = $35.00

I'm also not too impressed with the design of these sites. They all look very unprofessional in my opinion with the exception of a few of them. Maybe all these web designers/entrepreneurs just simply don't have a sense of design.

I'm going to repeat this one more time. Don't invest any money or serious time in these sites, they seem to have the potential to be rip offs. I would however take advantage of the free advertising credits you will receive for signing up and participating in e-mail ad credits.

ii V7 I Jazz lick that starts off as bebop and finishes as diminished

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/n1NQS)
I got this ii V7 I Jazz lick from David Baker's How to Play Bebop - Volume 1 book. Lots of great bebop licks in that book, highly recommended, you won't be disappointed in all the nice Jazz licks you'll learn from it. Anyway, this ii V7 I lick starts off with the bebop scale and finishes with a diminished pattern landing on the tonic of the I chord.



Here is a sound sample played on trumpet:

How to memorize this ii V7 I lick in 12 keys:

Just know that it starts on the tonic of the bebop scale you will be playing, or you can just think tonic of the key you are in on the ii V7 I Jazz lick. The lick goes up to the 3rd of the bebop scale you are currently on, then goes down the bebop scale until you land on the 5th. Next, you'll switch to a diminished stacked 3rd approach. In the above example it starts on C#.

What is a minor 3rd above C#? That's right, E. What is a minor 3rd below C#? That's right, Bb or A#, however you want to memorize it. Do you see the pattern here? The lick simply finishes off going down stacked minor thirds until you land on the tonic (1st position) of the I chord.

In my experience, some keys are easier than others. But this is a nice Jazz lick to have in your back pocket whenever you see the need for it.

Terence Blanchard jam session solo on Morning Sunrise changes

(My Original Blog Post: http://jazztrumpetlicks.com/2009/10/terence-blanchard-jam-session-solo-morning-sunrise-changes/)
It's always cool to hear a famous Jazz trumpet player like Terence Blanchard at a jam session. I've never got to hear him really play without a whole bunch of bends  in his trumpet solo until I watched this Jazz video clip of him at the 2007 Vitoria Jazz Festival. I'm not 100% sure of the chord changes, I think it is from the tune Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise.

Notice how Terence Blanchard uses a whole bunch of chromatic Jazz licks as his style of trumpet playing which is cool. Even though Terence Blanchard is jamming, he maintains his own unique style on the trumpet. He really doesn't use a whole lot of breaks though. Instead he goes hard core pretty much all the way until the end of his jam session Jazz solo.

Sign up bonus plus proof of payment from Nocturnalemail

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/pDsc5)
I just received my first payment from Nocturnal Email for winning a  silly referral contest. The funny thing is, I didn't even know that there was a referral contest going on because I'm involved with so many other sites keeping track of them all is pretty hard to do. The fact that Nocturnal Email paid me without any issues shows me that they can be put on my "A" list of websites that actually pay their members.

You can also get a $1.00 sign up bonus just for joining. Unfortunately, all the money you'll earn with Nocturnal Email can only be used for advertising. Unless you win a referral contest or some other promotion. I personally think that stinks, but you will get some quality paid to click advertising if you purchase any from them.

A Paypal payment I received from Nocturnalemail for $2.00.

Another thing I like about Nocturnal Email is that they currently pay $1.00 for every active referral you bring in. I think that is a little high on their part, but good for me and you.

The final good thing I'll go ahead and mention about Nocturnal Email is that they don't delete your account for not being active. For a paid to read email site, this sets the standard pretty high in my opinion. I hate sites that simply delete your account for not being active. It's now wonder why the sites that do this usually have less than 1,000 members because they can't retain them once they sign up.

Visit the main sign up bonus list for more free sign up bonuses from advertising websites.

How to fix Ping.fm Wordpress plugin if it doesn't add triggers

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/1MOTZ)
I love the Ping.fm Wordpress plugin. It works great on two of my other blogs, but on my latest blog, "this one", it decided not to work. I mean it installed properly and everything. But I was unable to add new custom triggers. After searching the web for a solution, I found none, so this is why I decided to write this post.

After taking a close look at my 2 other blogs, I was able to find out the Pingpressfm Wordpress plugin wasn't working due to the database not being updated properly. Until the developer of the Pingpress plugin fixes the problem, I found an easy fix that will get you up and running in no time by manually updating the database yourself.

First off, you will have to go to your hosting provider and log into your mysqladmin database. Once logged into your blog's database, go to wp-options, then hit the browse button and search for these rows of data.

ppfm_keyVerified
ppfm_reverifyKey
ppfm_deleteOldSettings
ppfm_firstTime
ppfm_optionsUpdated
ppfm_apiDev
ppfm_apiUser
ppfm_ellipse

All you need to do is simply change no to yes for all the above. To do this, just hit the edit icon, update it, and click on go for each row of data.

Now find this row of data:

ppfm_triggers


Do not change no to yes for this row. This is what makes PingPressFM only ping out your post the first time instead of every time you make an update to it.

Replace the what is currently in that row with this data: (make a back up of the current row's data first)

active=B(true) label=S(m) type=S(m) both=B(false) description=S(Microblog: 140 Characters Max, No HTML) categories=A() tags=A() format=S([Blog] $subject: $body $slink)
active=B(true) label=S(s) type=S(s) both=B(false) description=S(Status Update: 200 Characters Max, No HTML) categories=A() tags=A() format=S([Blog] $subject: $body $slink)
active=B(true) label=S(b) type=S(b) both=B(false) description=S(Blog Entry: Unlimited Length, HTML Preserved) categories=A() tags=A() format=S((My Original Blog Post: <a href="$link">$link</a>)\n$body)


Now head over to your Wordpress back office. Then go to your PingPressFM plugin settings. You should now see 3 triggers set up. You can now update these triggers to fit your desired needs.

Note: Very important to make a back up copy of what was previously in your wp-options tables just in case it doesn't work for you. These are Ping.fm's standard triggers, so they should work perfectly as long as you have them set up in your Ping.fm account.