Rests are entered like notes, with the note name r
:
r1 r2 r4 r8
Whole bar rests, centered in middle of the bar, must be done with multi measure rests. They are discussed in Multi measure rests.
A rest's vertical position may be explicitly specified by entering a
note with the \rest
keyword appended. This makes manual
formatting in polyphonic music easier. Rest collision testing will
leave these rests alone:
a'4\rest d'4\rest
This page is for LilyPond-2.0.0 (stable-branch).