Scanning through individual songs - how?

I apologize up front since I'd imagine this is a pretty basic thing, that if I knew what to search for, I'd find an answer for. However, thus far, nada.
Here's my issue - I want to be able to scan back and forth through songs as they play on my iPhone 3G, but there's no little bar at the top of the screen, you know, the one with the grey dot that tracks the song's progress? I've seen it a couple times, but it's usually nor there. I have some books on tape I'm listening to and it would be very beneficial if I had the ability to skip back 10-15 seconds when I need to. RIght now, the only options are skip back to the beginning or skip to the next track - neither of which is helpful since each segment I'm listening to is over one hour long. I could go into an mp3 editor and break it up, but that's time consuming. Besides, I KNOW that my iPhone should be able to do it. Thanks in advance!

The little bar you are referring to is called the scrubber.
To show the scrubber for the song playing, tap anywhere on the album coverart area for the song that is playing. If lyrics are available for the song that is playing, this also shows the lyrics.

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