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The naming quiz

Practice without an instrument: the app shows a chord, a staff or a key signature and you tap the answer. Six kinds of question, all of them on a phone.

Music theory on your phone

Naming turns any exercise into a multiple-choice quiz. The chord pool, keys, hearts and streaks stay the same, and you answer by pressing a button instead of playing the chord. You can do it in a queue, on a train or in the ten minutes before a lesson.

On a computer you pick answers with the digits 1–9; on a phone you tap them.

Six kinds of question

Three are about chords and keys:

  • Chord name: the app shows the notes (or the staff) and you pick the chord.
  • Notes: the app shows the chord’s name and you tick every note that belongs to it.
  • Key signature: the app shows a key and you tick every sharp or flat in its signature. You can choose major keys, minor keys or both.

The other three ask where a chord sits in its key, so they are for scale exercises, where the answer depends on the key:

  • Scale degree: a number from 1 to 7.
  • Roman numerals: i to vii, as a harmony textbook writes them.
  • Function: I to VII, as on a chord chart or when a teacher calls them out.
Naming on a phone: a chord shown, and a row of chord-name buttons to choose from.
Chord name: pick the chord from the buttons.
Naming on a phone: a chord name, and note buttons to tick.
Notes: tick the notes of the named chord.
Naming on a phone: a key, and accidental buttons for its signature.
Key signature: tick the sharps or flats of the key.
Naming on a phone: a chord from D major, and Roman-numeral buttons.
Roman numerals: where this chord sits in the key.
Naming on a phone: a chord from D major, and buttons numbered 1 to 7.
The same question with plain numbers.
Naming on a phone: a D major chord with its notes on the keyboard, and buttons I to VII.
Function: I to VII.

Set the difficulty

  • On easy the wrong answers come only from your own chord pool; on hard they come from all chords.
  • Each question has between two and eight buttons.
  • The buttons can be sorted or shuffled. Shuffling stops you remembering where the right answer usually is.
  • After a wrong answer the right button can light up, or you can turn that off and work it out yourself.
The naming settings: quiz type, difficulty, button count, sort order, reveal on wrong.
Five settings that make the quiz easier or harder.

Take a quiz

Name the chord Triads and seventh chords on white-key roots. Try it →Name it from the staff Read the notes, pick the chord. Try it →Degrees in D major Which numeral is this chord? Try it →All twelve keys Majors and minors from every root. Try it →

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