Re: Percussion with lyrics

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi,

> I tried using a NullVoice, but I haven't been able to find the correct 
> incantation yet :-(
> Attached is a M(N)WE, I hope someone can nudge me in the right direction...

How much of a nudge do you want?  ;)

Really Subtle Nudge: Change NullVoice to Voice and look at what’s happening.

Bull-In-A-China-Shop Nudge: I’m assuming you want something more like this?

%%%  SNIPPET BEGINS
\version "2.22.1"

\header {
  title = \markup \concat { "Oh, but it " \underline "does" " work!" }
  instrument = "Frog / Cajonga's"
}

\paper {
  left-margin = 20
}

global = {
  \key c \major
  \time 4/4
}

melody = {
  a'2 2
  R1
  r8 a'8 4 2
  r8 a'16 16 16 16 8 4 4
  R1
  r8 a'16 16 8 8 2
}

verse = \lyricmode {
  \tweak self-alignment-X #LEFT Measure one and
  Measure two and
  A meas -- ure with more notes
  And the fi -- nal one!
}

% tomml toml tomfh
drum = \drummode {
  R1 |
  r4 hh4 hh4 r4 |
  R1 |
  R1 |
  r2 r16 toml16 toml toml r4 |
  R1 |
  \bar "|."
}

drumsPart = \new DrumStaff \with {
  \consists "Instrument_name_engraver"
  instrumentName = \markup \center-column { "Frog" "Cajs" }
} << \global \drum >>

\score {
  <<
    \new NullVoice = "aligner" << \global \melody >>
    \new Lyrics \lyricsto "aligner" \verse
    \drumsPart
  >>
}
%%%  SNIPPET ENDS

Hope that helps!
Kieren.
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