<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article does not cite any sources . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (December 2009) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article does not cite any sources . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (December 2009) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> In music notation, a tie is a curved line connecting the heads of two notes of the same pitch and name, indicating that they are to be played as a single note with a duration equal to the sum of the individual notes' values . A tie is similar in appearance to a slur, however slurs join notes of different pitches which need to be played independently, but seamlessly . </P> <P> The tie shown at right (in blue) connects a quarter note (crotchet) to a sixteenth note (semiquaver), creating a note ​ ⁄ as long as a quarter note, or five times as long as a sixteenth note--there is no single note value to express this duration . However, in some cases one might tie two notes that could be written with a single note value, such as a quarter note tied to an eighth note (the same length as a dotted quarter). This might be because: </P>

Curved line connecting 2 more notes different pitches