#### 3.1.9 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'>

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

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

In this manual: Automatic note splitting.

Program reference: TieEvent, Tie.

For tying 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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