In this video we want to look at writing tied notes, and also how they're interchangeable with dotted notes. The first type note we have is a half note tied to a coordinate. So that sounds like three beats, we've got two beats and one beats, three beats in total, and it has the same that would sound the same as a dotted half note. We also have a quarter note tied to an eighth note. So that would be one and a half. So that's one off beats in total, and that would be like the dotted quarter.

We can also tie an eighth note to 16th load You can actually you can tie any value to any other value. But this is just so that we can practice. Okay, so that would have, that's a half and that's a quarter. So it's actually three quarters of a beat in total. And that's the same as a dotted eighth note. So next we're going to take our dotted notes example from before and instead of dotted notes, we're going to use Tod notes.

So I'm going to just write the treble clef as usual. The time signature, tempo and footballs. In the first ball, we have a half load tied to coordinate And then we end the bar with a quarter note. In bar two, we have a quarter note tied to an eighth note. And this, these two eighth notes are actually joined. So instead of writing those eighth notes individually, we join them and that makes up a beat.

But we want to tie the quarter note, an eighth note together, so it sounds like one and a half, one to end. But these eighth notes are still joined. And then we do exactly the same phrase again 1234 and rather, we're going to join the third beat to the first half of the fourth beat. So that's one, two and three, four and in the third bar, we have An eighth note tied to a 16th note, and what we've got is actually two 16th notes joined together. Now, this is quite interesting because we've got an eighth note joined to two sixteenths, and you can tell that these are sixteenths because they both got the double flag. And this one has a single flag.

So you notice an eighth note attached to two 16th notes. And that makes up one beat, obviously, but we're going to tie this eighth note and the 16th note together. So it's going to sound like one E and so the one will be heard and the other one will be heard. Then we're going to follow that with a coordinate and the same phrase again. It's not joined to two 16th notes. Remember to give the 16th notes a double flag We're going to tie the eighth flow to the 16th, the first 16th load, so that's three and, and then in the bar with another coordinate.

In bar four, we're doing a combination, we're doing a coordinate, tied to an eighth note. Once again, these two eighth notes of the second beat are joined by a flag. And then on the third beat, we're going to do an eighth note making up the first half of the third beat, and two 16th notes looking up the second half of the third beat, and we're going to tie the eighth note to the 16th the first 16th note. Okay, so that would be one, two, and three and, and then we're going to end with a quarter note. Okay, so once again, this example is going to sound exactly like The dotted notes example, it's just another way to write the same phrasing. So we've got 123412 and three, four, and one and two, three and 412, and three and four.

That's how you counted. Now this tired example looks a little bit more involved than one with dotted notes. And for this reason, dogs notes are usually preferred. But tied notes can be handy, obviously, to keep the bar tidy when necessary. So instead of, if you, for example, had a phrase where you began the bar with a coordinate and then you wanted to have a dotted coordinate. And then to eighth notes, for example.

Now this is technically Okay, it's got four beats in the bar, one, one and a half, and another one and a half. So that's three and one. So that adds up to four. So we were all good in terms of the number of beats in the bar, but it's just that you can't really see where this third third beat is coming. So when you're playing this example, it gets a little bit confusing. So a better way to write that obviously, would be to have a quarter note and then a quarter note joined to an eighth note, and you can have these eighth notes joined by a common flag.

This, and these two can be joined together. So it's a lot easier to see what's going on here because we've clearly got 123 and four. And this is a little bit more vague. Of course, if we want notice of statements the next bar, it's really handy just to use a tie. So you can just tie this eighth note to a to a whole note, for example. So the way you can't that would be 123 and four and 1234.

This note would sustain right through the whole of the next bar.