Dominant scale ii V7 I Jazz lick

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Here is a pretty easy dominant scale ii V7 I Jazz lick I got from a friend of mine some time ago. It simply starts on the tonic of the ii chord and goes up the dominant scale until hitting the 3rd of the I chord and then ending on the cry me a river Jazz riff. You can play the lick faster depending upon the tempo of the tune you use it over and hit the 3rd on the V7 chord like I do in the below video clip.


Here is a sound sample over the Bb Blues on trumpet:

How to memorize this lick in 12 keys:

The reason I call this a dominant scale ii V7 I Jazz lick is because it is simply a dominant scale pattern in whatever whatever key you're currently in going up the scale. In the above example were are in C Major. What's the 5th of C? It's G7, so we play the G7 scale starting on the 5th. You repeat the pattern until you hit the 3rd of the I chord. In the above example that would be E. So if you know your dominant scales really well, you'll have this lick in 12 keys really fast.

It ends with the cry me a river Jazz lick, which is something you can work on separately. For me, that lick is best learned in 12 keys simply by feel.

I hope you enjoy this lick, I also updated the look of the Jazz Trumpet Forum template making the blog and forum look a lot more similar. I should have done this a long time ago though. Let me know what you think of the new forum look.

Arturo Sandoval amazing flugelhorn solo on Samba De Amore

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I've been listening to this YouTube video almost every day for the past week. The head isn't all that impressive, but it's definitely catchy. What you are going to want to do is take a listen to Arturo Sandoval's flugelhorn solo at about 3:15 on the trumpet video. Just amazing. I'm going to be stealing a few licks from this video and posting them on the site because there are some really good ones in it.

I would love to get your opinions on this awesome flugelhorn solo by Arturo Sandoval.

Cool Freddie Hubbard Autumn Leaves trumpet solo

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I've been recently working on the chord changes to Autumn Leaves. So I decided to browse You Tube a little bit to see if I could find some good ideas. Low and behold, guess what I found? A really cool and awesome trumpet solo of Freddie Hubbard taking a ride on Autumn Leaves. Plus you can hear how he interprets the head of Autumn Leaves as well as Freddie Hubbard's usage of the 3rd valve on As and Es on the flugelhorn.

A couple other things to note about this great trumpet clip. Freddie Hubbard does a nice cadenza at the end and shows off his trumpet style in so many other ways.

Free financial education at Blog Talk Radio by Greg London

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If you don't have anything going on the night of March 31st, 2010 at 10:00pm CST (that's USA central standard time for you non-US citizens), I would invite you to join me, Greg London, at Blog Talk Radio. You never know what you could learn. Financial education is something you should always be continuing to improve and grow upon on a regular basis.

I've been meaning to get something like this going for some time now. What I wanted to do was make it like a video conference. After realizing all the extra work that would take plus me not having the required tools to get something like that set up rather quickly, I've decided that a simple audio conference would suffice.

So you can join in on the conversation. It doesn't matter what your financial background is, in debt, financially stable, or super rich. I plan on talking about a variety of subjects that will all make you richer regardless of your current financial situation.

There are certain characteristics that I believe you should have to being financially successful in life. I'll discuss what these things are, you decide what you want to take advantage of. This can take place either now or in the future, it's entirely up to you.

In case you can't make this one, don't worry, I plan on making this a monthly financial training. This is simply because you can't cover everything in one 30 minute session. So keep an eye on my Blog Talk Radio profile to see when the next financial training will be online. You can either listen in, or participate and call in to ask questions, it's entirely up to you.

Panthera Network proof of payment

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I got my first payment from the  Panthera Network, a free affiliate network that pays their publishers on a cost per action basis and cost per sale basis. If you haven't applied to become an affiliate publisher with them yet I would highly recommend doing so right away.

You need to have a blog or website that you own in order for you application to even get approved. A good thing is that it doesn't matter what Country you're from in order to join. Everyone is welcome.

I love affiliate networks because they are free to join where as business opportunities or multi-level marketing businesses always require some sort of fee to get started along with a monthly payment.  The beauty of these affiliate networks gives you the potential to increase your monthly cash flow quite a bit.

Check I received from the Panthera Network for $50.80.

If you like the idea of joining free affiliate networks and never having to pay a monthly fee to make money, make sure to check out more free affiliate networks to join right away. About half way through the page you'll find a list of free affiliate network sites to join.

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Cash4Free gives a sign up bonus but asks you to complete 2 offers to get it

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I recently ran into a pretty cool, well designed sign up bonus site entitled Cash4Free. When I went through the sign up process I was asked to complete 2 offers in order to finish my sign up and hopefully get my sign up bonus. Luckily this wasn't the case.

I did not complete two offers because one, I was short on time, and two, I don't think bribing me to complete two offers is a good way to build your membership base there, Cash4Free. After checking my back office, I see the $5.00 sign up bonus accredited to my account even though I didn't complete the 2 offers prior to finishing sign up.

Anyway, beside this quick shortfall, I think Cash4Free has some potential since it pays a $5.00 sign up bonus and you only need to earn another $10.00 in order to get your first payment through them via Paypal. That's only $15.00 total in order to cash out.

Cash4Free has a lot of free offers to choose from which I like. One really cool thing I like about them is that they don't currently have an upgrade option. This is cool to me because it shows that they are keeping it simple. You sign up, complete free offers, make money. They never beg you to upgrade with them because they don't have an upgrade option to bother you about anyway. That's how I see it anyway, what do you think?

Find more free sites that pay you to sign up for doing tasks and let me know what you think.

Easy concert Bb7 Jazz lick

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You may have heard this easy Jazz lick before while listening to your favorite Jazz artists. It would be nice to know if you have heard the lick before, if so, please leave a comment on this post. This really is an easy lick to incorporate into your Jazz trumpet solos, no third valve required!



Here a sound sample played over The Theme by Miles Davis:

How to memorize this lick in 12 Keys:

To be honest with you, I've never learned this lick in 12 keys. I usually only use it in a couple keys like C7 and G7, that's it. You can also play this lick in C Major and G Major as well and it sounds about the same. If you feel motivated enough to learn the lick in 12 keys it can only help your trumpet technique in the long run so have at it.

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