I am trying to add lyrics between the treble clef and bass clef.
Please help me to add the lyrics between the treble clef and bass clef on a song for a beginner piano student. The song is O Store Gud (How Great Thou Art). The song begins in the bass, and alternates between treble and bass clefs. At first the words appear below the bass clef, and then when I enter the fifth word, it skips ahead 3 measures, and not directly under the Treble Clef notes. This is frustrating. Please help me.
Thank you.
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you need to attach the lyrics to the notes they belong to, this indeed here means you need to switch between the staves, 4 syllables bass clef, 5 syllabels treble clef, 1 bass, 5 treble, 6 bass, etc.
If you were using MuseScore 3, you could then moves those syllables below bass staff to above it quite easily.
In reply to you need to attach the… by Jojo-Schmitz
The problem is that the words then do not line up, nor do they give proper space between words since they are in different clefs. Also, when I try to switch the position (above or below the note it's attached to) of the lyrics from one clef, the other clef's lyrics move also.
In reply to The problem is that the… by Mkarends
You need to limit the lyrics you move rather than moving all lyrics. To do this, select the bass clef, right click a lyric, choose select>all similar elements in selection then move only those selected in the inspector.
Why not just write the vocal notes on tha treble clef? They don't go very far below the stave.
In reply to Why not just write the vocal… by underquark
Because there's no corresponding notes. Adding lyrics to rests is possible meanwhile, but not progessing from one to next, as it is for notes, so a bit more work.
Same topic came up just today in #295754: Unable to write lyrics to for tunes that move between clefs
In reply to Why not just write the vocal… by underquark
I think the suggestion is to not use the bass clef at all - just ut all the notes on the treble staff. But, I get where this is coming from, it's written for musicians at a very early stage of development when they are starting to learn about multiple clefs but haven't yet learned about (or aren't sufficiently comfortable with) ledger lines. It's not an uncommon technique in such teaching materials.