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Originally Posted by AndreF
I think they are meant to indicate that the played notes should ring out. That's what I interpreted anyway.
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Agreed. Typical overkill from a transcriber who understands notes and rhythms on the staff; but is not familiar with many other basic conventions of reading and writing music.
In an arpeggiated or broken-chord pattern like this, it's presumed that the notes will ring. It doesn't need to be notated. Same thing applies to piano music. A broken chord is still treated as a chord: it can ring until the next chord change, unless otherwise directed.
The "tie to nowhere" is more commonly seen in percussion music -- to tell the player to let the gong (or whatever) ring indefinitely. But putting it on every note in a simple picking pattern like this is unnecessary.