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Show and hide parts of a song

Turn lyrics, chords, grids, and tabs on or off per song. Hide the lyrics for a chords-only music view, or hide everything but the words. The setting syncs across devices and follows into Play Mode and print.

Every song is built from a few layers: the lyrics, the chords above them, chord grids, and tab. You can show or hide each one on its own, per song, so a chart looks the way you want to read it.

Where to find it

Open a song, then the ⋯ menu in the top right, and choose Display.

A song's ... menu with the Display item highlighted
Open Display from the ... menu on any song.

You get four toggles:

  • Lyrics: the words
  • Chords: the chord names above the words, and chord-only lines
  • Grids: chord grids (bar-and-chord charts)
  • Tabs: tab notation

Turn any of them off and the sheet updates straight away.

The Display panel with Hide all and toggles for Lyrics, Chords, Grids, and Tabs
Each part of the song toggles on its own, with a Hide all switch at the top.

A chords-and-grids only view

Turn Lyrics off and you get a music view: the chords stay exactly where they fall over the line, the grids stay, and the words drop away. This is the one to reach for if you read charts rather than sing from the sheet, or you want a clean chord map of a song.

Turn Chords, Grids, and Tabs off instead and you are left with a plain lyric sheet.

Show all and Hide all

The top row is a quick switch. Show all brings every layer back. Hide all strips a song down to just the lyrics, so a sheet is never completely blank. For the same reason, the last visible layer can't be switched off, there is always at least one thing on the page.

It follows you everywhere

The setting is saved per song and syncs across your devices, so a song you set to a music view on your laptop opens the same way on your phone. It also carries into Play Mode (open the gear, then the Show section) and into Print & Export, so what you print matches what you see.

Last updated: 19 August 2026Need help? hello@fretlist.com