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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'>
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.
A tie is just a way of extending a note duration, similar to the augmentation dot. The following example shows two ways of notating exactly the same concept
Ties are used either when the note crosses a bar line, or when dots cannot be used to denote the rhythm. When using ties, larger note values should be aligned to subdivisions of the measure, eg.
If you need to tie a lot of notes over bars, it may be easier to use automatic note splitting (see Automatic note splitting). This mechanism automatically splits long notes, and ties them across bar lines.
Ties are sometimes used to write out arpeggios. In this case, two tied
notes need not be consecutive. This can be achieved by setting the
tieWaitForNote
property to true. For example,
\set tieWaitForNote = ##t \grace { c16[~ e~ g]~ } <c, e g>4
\tieUp
,
\tieDown
,
\tieNeutral
,
\tieDotted
,
\tieDashed
,
\tieSolid
.
In this manual: Automatic note splitting.
Program reference: Tie.
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.
This page is for LilyPond-2.6.3 (stable-branch).