You might ask why we would ever need to tie two notes together. (To make things even more confusing, a curvy line can also function as a phrase mark, but we're not going to go there!) Now doesn't that make you want to quit your day job and get an advanced degree in music theory?! Foolish me, I actually have an advanced degree in music theory. Even though it looks almost exactly the same in either case, it has two different names. (Wouldn't it be cool if we could do this with non-musical things - like making two normal-sized swimming pools into one big one! But, alas! This only works with music.)ĬONFUSING FACT: The curvy line is called a "tie" when it functions as a tie, and a "slur" when it functions as a slur. In this example, a half note (normally worth two beats) is connected to a second half note (also normally worth two beats), forming a longer note equal to - you guessed it - 2 + 2 = 4 beats! Two notes are morphed into one longer-sounding one. Notice that even though you see two notes, the curvy line connects them so that they form one longer note equal to the length of the first note plus the second one.
(Click to play the audio file below the following example of tied notes.) This means that you do not articulate the second note by plucking, striking, tonguing, bowing, or any other way in which a musical note is initiated.
When notes are connected in this way they are combined into one longer note. Ties connect two or more notes that are on the same line or space. (Leave it up to the history of music theory to make something that looks so similar mean something quite different.) Let's find out what makes a tie a tie and a slur a slur. And the answer would be, "A lot!" Although ties and slurs look alike, they are quite different. (Ties also connect notes that are on the same line.) However, the example on the right is a slur because the notes are on different lines and spaces. If you said that the example on the left is a tie, congratulations! You get the gold star! It is a tie because the curvy line connects two notes that are on the same space.
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