It seems the most simple way to get what I need is continuing the first and second voice for a bar filling the first voice with the notes I need like thus and placing an invisible rest the second voice.
r2 r4 << { b~ | b8 b c d e f4.~ | f4. e8 r2 | } \\ { f4~ | f2 r | s1 |} >> Although this can get a bit wonky with stemdirections for the upper voice, it seems the invissible rest does force the stems up (even with a \stemdown added) Not quite satisfied yet -- Sent from: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/User-f3.html _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user