about lyrics and extenders

[Ricardo Kirkner]

i just cannot get it straight...

 

if i understand correctly when you are writing lyrics, and you want to say that a word should be sung over many notes ( a melisma ), then you write something like

 

notes:     n    n    n    n    n    n    n

words:    w     -     -    -     -     -    -

 

this puts the first - close to the word  w, and the rest - left aligned below the respective note.

 

when you use -- insted of - then you get the same result, but the -- are centered between notes.

 

when you use __ after a note, then you get a line between that note and the next.

 

but if you want to extend a word for more than 2 notes, how do you do it?

 

the closest i came was to write something like

 

notes:    n         n      n     n      n   

words:    w   __  _ __ _ __ _ __ _

 

but this just creates the underlines separated from each other like __ __ __ __

 

what i want to achieve is something like ______________

 

how dow you do that?

 

with regards,

 

ricardo