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  		   Posted 12/28/2014 10:15 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
For instance a guitar, with three part voices, and multiple lyric verses.
a) are the voices on the top, or the instruments?
b) do the lyrics go under the top voice line or the bottom? (of three voices)
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  		   Posted 12/29/2014 1:16 AM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Welcome to the forum.

It depends. Is it a true, written out guitar part, or just chords?

I would put the voices on top. I like to put the lyric line under each voice part. I find it less confusing, although, as a bass, I'm quite used to having them above. But if I was singing the top line, I wouldn't want my lyrics two or three staves away.

With multiple verses, I would write it out. I hate having to backtrack and keep an eye on which verse I'm in.

Accompaniment should go below the voices.

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  		   Posted 12/29/2014 11:36 AM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I'm with Mike on this, though depending on the guitar part, I might put the guitar above and have the voices in between guitar and piano. So if the guitar were just accompaniment, I'd do as Mike says, but if it were a kind of obbligato part with interesting material of its own, then it might be better positioned above the voices.

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