for example could u play a neighbour tone twice or got from a chord tone to an nct then to another nct. I was looking at jackson 5's want you back and this appeared to be the case
this is written in A flat major
during the middle of the measure it goes from an Aflat to two B notes then to then to several f notes then to Eflats. i figured that these are passing and neighbour tones is their a name or way to analyse nct's being used consecutively.
You may be interested in what pop-music scholars often call the "melodic-harmonic divorce." By "divorce," they mean that the pitches in the melody are often vastly different from from the harmony that accompanies them. As such, the non-chord tones in this repertoire do not always fit the standard designations from the common-practice period like passing tones and neighbor tones.
Two especially important articles on this phenomenon are by David Temperley and Drew Nobile; you may check them out if you're interested.
That being said, both the B♭s and Fs here could easily be explained as incomplete neighbors (that is, neighbor tones with one of the chord tones on either side missing). In popular music, the non-chord tones on the 6th and 9th above the root are pretty common.
If you want to analyze the non-chord-tone, then here's my opinion. When the melody moves from that A♭ to a B♭, then to an F, all the notes are diatonic to A♭. I'd call this an escape tone, actually, for the reason that I think it's sort of implied that the B♭ is followed by an E♭ (on the word "my"), which is sort of a grace note to the F [so A♭ to B♭ to (E♭, then immediately F, both on the word "my")]. When the E♭ goes to the F and back again, I'd call that a neighbor tone. True, there isn't actually an E♭ before the F, but if you listen to it you could imagine it there and it wouldn't really change the melody. So Escape tone, then Neighbor tone.
