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Ties

A tie connects two adjacent note heads of the same pitch. The tie in effect extends the length of a note. Ties should not be confused with slurs, which indicate articulation, or phrasing slurs, which indicate musical phrasing. A tie is entered using the tilde symbol `~':

       e' ~ e' <c' e' g'> ~ <c' e' g'>
     

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When a tie is applied to a chord, all note heads whose pitches match are connected. When no note heads match, no ties will be created.

In its meaning a tie is just a way of extending a note duration, similar to the augmentation dot; in the following example there are two ways of notating exactly the same concept:

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If you need to tie a lot of notes over bars, it may be easier to use automatic note splitting (See Automatic note splitting).

Predefined commands

\tieUp, \tieDown, \tieBoth, \tieDotted, \tieSolid.

See also

TieEvent, NewTieEvent, Tie, and Automatic note splitting.

If you want less ties created for a chord, see input/test/tie-sparse.ly.

For tieing only a subset of the note heads of a pair of chords, see input/regression/tie-chord-partial.ly.

Bugs

Switching staves when a tie is active will not produce a slanted tie.

Formatting of ties is a difficult subject. The results are often not optimal.


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