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Originally Posted by Guitar Slim II
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.
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YES.
At most the score could have "let ring..." notated above the arpeggio section, but the ties to nowhere are cumbersome & slow the reader down.
As has been said, knowing how to read & knowing best practices for professional notation are 2 different things. The overarching directive in notation is to make the music as readable as possible and the intent as clear as can be while using the least amount of ink on the page. IOW only put what needs to be there. Extra symbols require extra processing time & make reading the music more of a chore. Redundancy is not a good thing in this case.