Re: How do I get an "empty / blank" lyric at the start of a song?

[Aaron Hill]

On 2021-11-25 11:24 am, Kevin Cole wrote:
> In other words (or lack thereof) the first verse doesn't start on the
> pickup note, but later verses do. So I don't want a lyric under the
> rest.

Use an underscore to skip over the anacrusis:

%%%%
{ \partial 4 b'4 | a'2 b' }
\addlyrics { _ \set stanza = "1." lo -- rem  }
\addlyrics { \set stanza = "2." do -- lor sit }
%%%%


-- Aaron Hill