# 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.](https://pianokitty.com/features/en/naming/chord-name.webp)

![Naming on a phone: a chord name, and note buttons to tick.](https://pianokitty.com/features/en/naming/notes.webp)

![Naming on a phone: a key, and accidental buttons for its signature.](https://pianokitty.com/features/en/naming/key-signature.webp)

![Naming on a phone: a chord from D major, and Roman-numeral buttons.](https://pianokitty.com/features/en/naming/degrees.webp)

![Naming on a phone: a chord from D major, and buttons numbered 1 to 7.](https://pianokitty.com/features/en/naming/degrees-numeric.webp)

![Naming on a phone: a D major chord with its notes on the keyboard, and buttons I to VII.](https://pianokitty.com/features/en/naming/function.webp)

## 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.](https://pianokitty.com/features/en/naming/settings.webp)

## Take a quiz

- Try it: [Name the chord](https://pianokitty.com/app?activity=naming&subject=chords&ct=0,1,6,7,8&bn=0,2,4,5,7,9,11&inv=0): Triads and seventh chords on white-key roots.
- Try it: [Name it from the staff](https://pianokitty.com/app?activity=naming&subject=chords&ct=0,1,6,7,8&bn=0,2,4,5,7,9,11&inv=0&nd=staff): Read the notes, pick the chord.
- Try it: [Degrees in D major](https://pianokitty.com/app?activity=naming&subject=scales&key=D&mode=major&voicing=triads&seq=random): Which numeral is this chord?
- Try it: [All twelve keys](https://pianokitty.com/app?activity=naming&subject=chords&ct=0,1&bn=0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11&inv=0): Majors and minors from every root.

Related: [Practice without or away from your piano](https://pianokitty.com/features/no-piano.md), [Ear training](https://pianokitty.com/features/ear-training.md), [Chord names or sheet music](https://pianokitty.com/features/chord-notation.md)

Source: https://pianokitty.com/features/naming