Music Fundamentals A Balanced Approach

Tied Notes: Extending Duration

Note values may be extended through the use of a tie: or. Ties connect two or more notes of the same
pitch by adding together the note values of each tied note. Ties must be drawn from note head to note head and
must connect each note.

Tied notes are played only once and continue to sustain for the duration of all tied note values. For example:

Ties may be used to hold a note into the next measure. For example:

Incorrect Correct

Here, a whole note in the first measure exceeds the number of beats allowed in a 2/4 time signature. In order to
hold the first note for four beats, a half note would be tied to another half note.

65

65 Tied Notes: Extending Duration

67 Slurs

67 Dotted Notes: Extending Duration

70 Fermata

71 Anacrusis

73 Rests

81 Workbook

MODULE 3 BASICS OF RHYTHM: EXTENDING DURATION, ANACRUSIS, RESTS

Correct notation Incorrect notation

qq= Half note hh= Whole note

4

(^2) ú qq
\
Beats: 4 1 1
4
(^2) h
(
h qq
\\
Beats: 2 + 2 1 1