What’s on the Ties, Slurs & Dots poster
Tie against Slur, side by side.
- Tie: Joins two notes of the SAME pitch
- Tie: One sound, held for both values
- Tie: Used across a barline where no single note fits
- Tie: Play once, hold through
- Slur: Curves over notes of DIFFERENT pitch
- Slur: Play smoothly, one bow or one breath
- Slur: Each note is still sounded
- Slur: A phrase mark, not a duration
- The dot is the third: a dot after a note adds half its value. A double dot adds half,…
Dotted half = 3 beats. Double-dotted half = 3½. A dot never shortens anything.
Questions about the Ties, Slurs & Dots poster
- What’s on the Ties, Slurs & Dots poster?
- Tie against Slur, side by side. Tie: Joins two notes of the SAME pitch; Tie: One sound, held for both values; Tie: Used across a barline where no single note fits; Tie: Play once, hold through; Slur: Curves over notes of DIFFERENT pitch; Slur: Play smoothly, one bow or one breath; Slur: Each note is still sounded; Slur: A phrase mark, not a duration; The dot is the third: a dot after a note adds half its value. A double dot adds half,…. Dotted half = 3 beats. Double-dotted half = 3½. A dot never shortens anything.
- Who is the Ties, Slurs & Dots poster for?
- Ties, Slurs & Dots belongs to the Music section rather than to a school year, because music is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning notation can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Ties, Slurs & Dots poster?
- Same pitch means tie. Different pitches means slur. That is the whole distinction. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Ties, Slurs & Dots belongs on the wall where that music work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Ties, Slurs & Dots?
- Accidentals, Articulation and Dynamics & Tempo sit alongside Ties, Slurs & Dots in the Music section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.AccidentalsArticulationDynamics & Tempo
- Is the Ties, Slurs & Dots poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Ties, Slurs & Dots downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Music section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Ties, Slurs & Dots poster print at?
- Ties, Slurs & Dots is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Ties, Slurs & Dots loses nothing.Printing guide
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