Rhythm - Ties

TIES

A tie is a curved line which connects two notes of the same pitch.

Tied notes are played as one note. The second note is not played. The rhythmic value is the sum of the two notes.

A tie should also be written on the opposite side from the stems.

Right way

Wrong way

Tied Notes and its Duration
Tied Notes	Duration
half note + quarter note	= held for 3 beats
half note + eighth note	= held for 2 1/2 beats
quarter note + quarter note	= held for 2 beats
quarter note + eighth note	= held for 1 1/2 beats
eighth note + eighth note	= held for 1 beat

There is no limit to the number of notes which can be tied together. However, you must make a curved line from each note to the next, like in the example below.

Sometimes you will find a tie on the last note of a line, when this happens, we draw half the tie over the last note, and the other half over the first note of the next line.

Although a line apart, they are joined with the two half's of a tie.