Slurs & Ties

1. What are slurs?

• Slurs are signs over or under a note or rest which means to pause on the note or rest.

• Slurs are time values with the same pitch.

• Slurs are signs over a group of different/various notes which means connected notes smoothly joined together.

• Slurs are accidentals:(the sharp-# , flat-(b) and natural (G) signs.

What are slurs used for?

• Slurs are signs used to determine when a piece of music should be played very loud.

• Slurs are signs which indicate when notes of varying pitches are to be played 'legato' in a smooth and connected manner.

• Slurs are signs that indicate how notes should be grouped/beamed together.

• Slurs are time signatures which indicate the amount of beats in each bar/measure.

What are ties?

• Ties are signs which separate notes that are next to each other and also have the same pitch.

• Ties are signs which mean to repeat a piece of music from the beginning.

• Ties are notes of varying/different pitch.

• Ties are signs which mean to join notes that are next to each other and also have the same pitch.

What are ties used for?

• Ties span from the individual notehead to notehead of the same pitch to combine time values/notes.

• Ties are signs which indicate the key in a piece of music.

• Ties are used to determine the distance from one note to another.

• Ties are used to determine the tempo (speed/time) in a piece of music.

Ties always start and end on the same notehead.

• True

• False

Ties cannot extend accidentals across the bar line.

• True

• False