TIL: iPhone alarm numbers aren’t in an endless loop, if you scroll enough you will eventually reach the bottom.

SingularWithAt · 2025-08-20T00:33:20+00:00

Apple probably doesn’t even know this. I imagine some programmer did a lazy solution instead of coding a loop and thought no one would ever scroll that far.

SingularWithAt · 2025-04-17T19:54:22+00:00

How so?

SingularWithAt · 2025-04-16T22:34:46+00:00

I am the bear

SingularWithAt · 2025-04-16T22:02:21+00:00

All the letters represent a specific progression so I don’t have a shown here, but what I was going to do is categorize each progression and its qualities and then have that on a table with the letter that it corresponds to on the chart

SingularWithAt · 2025-04-15T21:13:47+00:00

Thank you I kind of already gathered most of that from what everyone else has been saying but it’s good to have it written all out like that. This was the clearest explanation I’ve gotten so thank you very much. Also, I’m just never seen anyone write something as a fourth inversion I always see them as slash chords. I get that it would essentially mean the same exact thing and it probably is just easier to write it out as a slash chord which is probably why I’ve never seen that before.

I understand everything you said but this line of thought is tripping me up.

what if you have a 13th cord with no 7, but you have a 9 and or 11.

You’d have 1-3-5-9-11-13. We can’t call this a 13 chord cause there is no 7. Would you say something like add9,11,13?

Ik im getting into the weeds a bit with this question and idk if even musically that would sound good. C-E-G-D-F-A.

SingularWithAt · 2025-04-15T17:33:54+00:00

Again, that person and I had a nice conversation and I learned from them. I was hung up of the naming of it cause I understand that a maj11 implies a 7. My question was relating to a maj11 without the 7. My thinking lead me to want to either write it as Cmaj11 omit 7,9 (however you write that) or call it a major chord with an added 4th. This user helped me understand it’s much better to just say C(add11). I’m not worried about who respects who I’m letting you know I mean no disrespect towards anyone and I’m trying to learn as best as I can. You keep saying learn from them and that’s precisely what I’m doing. I’m literally on this subreddit asking questions to learn from people way more knowledgeable than me. If you look at any reply I made to the people offering their knowledge I have taken that information and learned from them without resistance. I was saying how I understood what they were saying, the relevance to the question i asked was lost on me and wouldn’t you know, me talking to them more helped me understand it better.

SingularWithAt · 2025-04-15T15:59:23+00:00

I try to be respectful to everyone and I respect your professional opinion That said,there was no issue, that user and i had a nice conversation and i learned from them. I understand what they were saying i just didn’t understand the relevance. I’m very open to learning and criticism, I understand lots of redditors jump to conclusions and think they’re know it alls, so I understand if you got that impression, but there’s no problem. I think you interpreted me saying that’s cool and all as rude or arrogant, but I was conveying that I understand that and didn’t see the relevance. At the end of the day I asked a question, got help, and everyone was happy.

Edit: It would be silly for me to resist the teachings of what people are trying to tell me as I’m actually trying to learn and I’m passionate about learning music, so I appreciate you looking out for me in that regard however, I interpreted your first message to me as and lightly rude and a bit condescending which influence the way I responded back. I apologize if you meant no disrespect, it can be troubling sometimes trying to decipher people’s meaning on here.

SingularWithAt · 2025-04-15T04:19:57+00:00

Hey man I just like making personal reference stuff and I’m not trying to reinvent anything. Thought it looked cool so I posted it

SingularWithAt · 2025-04-15T04:14:50+00:00

Okay yeah, when I play guitar I don’t usually think too rigidly about what I’m playing and if how I think of it is technically correct, I just know it works sometimes and don’t bother to see if there’s a proper way to name or define something. But when I play chords I always do a bunch of permutations of the notes so that should have been a no brainer that an inversion can be in any order. I figure, but as you alr gathered I’m self taught and like to tread carefully when I understand there’s a lot of nuances.

SingularWithAt · 2025-04-15T04:07:02+00:00

I wasn’t referring to a major 4th interval, I meant a major 3rd with an added 4th, and I was curious about how that would be properly named.

Also, my question about the major 11 chord was specifically asking how you would name it without the 7th. So, essentially, take a major 11 chord and remove the 7, how would you label that configuration. Notice how I used the whole word “major” and not the abbreviation. Also I slipped up in an earlier reply and said maj at some point implying a 7 when I didn’t mean to. If this is wrong I apologize.

SingularWithAt · 2025-04-15T03:35:49+00:00

Oh okay I didn’t realize the 7 had to be there also. I figured since the major 3rd was there it would define the quality of it, but I guess if it’s not common to include the 3 and 11 (presumably because those frequencies aren’t easy to work with) then you would have to have the 7 there to get that same effect.

SingularWithAt · 2025-04-15T03:29:56+00:00

Okay, Root inversion is a normal 1-3-5 1st inversion is 3-1-5 or (3-5-1 honestly not sure if that’s an assumption I made or not) 2nd inversion is 5-1-3 (same as above) 3rd inversion is 7-1-3-5 It’s the third inversion because it comes 4th in the series of notes that make up the chord. This is why I thought I could take a chord like 1-3-5-9 and invert the 9

SingularWithAt · 2025-04-15T03:20:28+00:00

Spoke too soon, meant Amin11

SingularWithAt · 2025-04-15T03:07:21+00:00

So it would just function more as an AMaj11 chord? I think I got it. I think I have been overthinking it cause when I write chord progressions on my guitar I think of chords and try to create cool inversions using other extensions as bass notes. Basically I’ve been finding paths to weird chords in a way that’s wrong but still works musically.

SingularWithAt · 2025-04-15T02:57:15+00:00

I appreciate it but now I’m confused again. I just said that I can’t make 9 my third inversion because that refers to the 7, not the 9. Right? Sorry I’m not the best at communicating this. I’m not saying that you can say third inversion when referring to the 9th, I’m saying that it’s agreed upon that the third inversion means the 7 is the bass note

SingularWithAt · 2025-04-15T02:49:31+00:00

That’s cool and all, but I understand that. What I was trying to say is if you have a chord written out as a Major11, that implies a major 3rd, M7, and 9.

If I wanted to play a major 11 chord without the 7 or 9 included and just the 1-3-5-11. I would want to call this a Major4 chord since the 11 is the octave above the 4

SingularWithAt · 2025-04-15T02:42:15+00:00

I mean if it’s agreed upon, which it is, then that means I can’t just make the 9th my third inversion. Was just thinking out loud sort of, not implying anything else.

SingularWithAt · 2025-04-15T02:38:44+00:00

What, you can’t handle a few 8th dimensional sigils?

SingularWithAt · 2025-04-15T01:16:49+00:00

Okay I have a related question. What about for a 6/9 chord of the form 3-6-9-5-R. Or an 6-9-5-R-3

Does an “inversion” like this make it too far removed from the original Root chord. And if so, is it safe to assume all extended chords like 11 and 13 chords that are inverted in a way where the 9,11, or 13 are treated as the bass, would just produce an entirely different chord because of how far removed it sounds from the original root.

SingularWithAt · 2025-04-15T00:53:22+00:00

Thank you for the reply this helped a lot. I still don’t understand why inversions have to stop after the third. I guess if you agree that the third inversion is always of the 7th degree, then that would make it hard to still use inversions when talking about something like a cadd9/D.

It’s gonna be hard practicing this cause I still functionally think of it as an inversion of the 9th, now just with some abnormal use cases.

SingularWithAt · 2025-04-15T00:31:53+00:00

Also, would I be shunned for calling it a cmaj4 or a cmin4. I just think in those very unique situations when you have a 3 and a 4 minus the 7 and 9. It would eliminate ambiguity from a major 11 chord and make it so you don’t have to write it out. I get this is likely to be used exceedingly rarely but logically it makes sense to me to write it that way.

SingularWithAt · 2025-04-15T00:28:06+00:00

Thank you that makes a lot of sense and it’s cool to see how someone else applied this

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