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Hey guys what is up! It is Walt here. One of my subscribers this little sick boy writes to me “Hey Walt! What is the difference between Ties and Slurs?” Well, I am going to show you. So in this, we have got to be working on the difference between Ties and Slurs. Now, understand that they both look exactly the same. Here is what a Tie looks like. Here is what a Slur looks like. And now, what is the difference? The difference is that a Tie is connected from one note to the same note and then a Slur is from one note to a different note. So now, check this out.
See this is an E, and then the next one is an E, C, A, D, and then now here on the Slur, you have from a D to a B. Now the way that works is that I always tell my students “think of a Tie as being a plus sign.” So for example, this Tie is really saying that this quarter note is one beat and this quarter note is obviously one beat. So now, think of this as this quarter note being added to this quarter note. So now instead of this quarter note getting one beat, it is now going to get two beats because it is saying a quarter note plus a quarter note. All the Tie really does to say “hold it out for this much longer” So you might be saying “Well, is it one plus one equals two. Is it not that the same in saying a half note because if you remember in my earlier tutorials, I said that a quarter note was one beat and then a half note was two beats, absolutely. So if you want to, you can make this a half note and as a result, it will play the exact same way, nothing will change.
Now, let us go the Slurs. Ties, you can only connect the Tie from one note to the next note. You can connect the Slur though to however many notes you want. And what if I made this all one big Slur? Now remember, I cannot make it a Tie. When it looks like this, it is not a Tie. If I were to go like this, now, it is a Tie. Now, let us take all of these out and go back to what we had before. And here is a Slur so that before you add — that will tell you how you can hear the actual depth, the first part that attack. When you have a Slur, you take the attack out and you do not have it anymore. So before, what we have is — we now have as — notice how I lean into the note. So here you have it. Here are your three notes C, E, D, C, C, I am just finger picking. And let us say, if you want to use a pick, here is how it will sound, it sounds like this.
Now, if I want to take those and play normal, it would be just how you heard it. But now, if I want to do everything legato, when you do legato, you want everything to be smooth and just leaned into. So as a result, you do not use your pick because when you are using a pick, you have that definite attack. But now, if you are doing everything in legato, now listen to it. Do not do legato without warming up. It is a very difficult and advanced technique that takes months (if not years of practice)
On legato, I am not going to use my right hand. Are you ready? See it? I am just putting it here just to prove it to you. Now if you saw a note that says “play these two notes normal and then play these two notes in legato”, the result would be this. Watch this hand here. Watch this hand. Pick, pick. Pick, pick. And now, watch this hand on the last two notes. So watch. Pick, pick, legato, legato. Let us say I will do it from this A to this B to this C, then back from C, B, then to A. The way that I am doing it is that I am literally hammering on the note. So the way that works is that if you have a note that is higher, you hammer on the note. And if you have a note that is lower, you pull off. So you take the note and you pull it off like you literally pull out. You literally grab that string and you pluck it with your pinky that you ar
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