Re: Skipping notes in \lyricsto

[Trevor Daniels]

Tim Rowe wrote Skipping notes in \lyricsto


> Is there any way to get lyrics to completely skip some notes in 
> the
> melody? (This is essentially for a fakesheet, and the notes I want 
> to
> skip are a cue for an instrumental part.)  It's not a melisma, so 
> I
> don't want extender notes or hyphens. I thought of splitting the
> melody into separate variables and only applying \lyricsto to the
> relevant ones, which might work (the splits don't come in nice 
> places,
> though, because of an awkwardly placed volta), but I wondered 
> whether
> there was an easier way.

You can use \skip 1 in \lyricsto to skip one note
of any duration.  (The 1 or any integer has to be
present, but is ignored in lyrics which derive their
duration from associated music).  To skip more notes
use \repeat unfold x { \skip 1 }.

You can see some examples of this in

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/notation/techniques-specific-to-lyrics#lyrics-and-repeats

Trevor