Hi Carlo, LilyPond prefers to have voices close together but not too close. In your example, the lower voice avoids a too tight setting on the fourth beat.
But you can position the rests manually with \override Rest #'staff-position = -4 Meaning, the position on the staff is 4 semitones down from the center line (i.e. on the lower line). This affects all rests in that voice. Alternatively you can do it only for one rest: \once \override Rest #'staff-position = -4 That's how it looks then: \version "2.18.0" DrumVoiceOne = \drummode { hh8 hh < hh sn > hh hh hh < hh sn > hh } DrumVoiceTwo = \drummode { \override Rest #'staff-position = -4 % this is new bd4 r8 bd r4 r } \score { << \new DrumStaff << \new DrumVoice { \voiceOne \DrumVoiceOne } \new DrumVoice { \voiceTwo \DrumVoiceTwo } >> >> } Cheers, Joram _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user