Re: Percussion with lyrics

[Kieren MacMillan]

p.s.

You could get away with your “one giant lyric blob on whole notes” approach 
with a few tweaks:

%%%  SNIPPET BEGINS
\version "2.22.1"

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

\paper {
  left-margin = 20
}

\layout {
  \context {
    \Lyrics
      \consists Bar_engraver
      \consists Separating_line_group_engraver
      \hide BarLine
  }
}

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

melody = {
  \repeat unfold 6 {
    a1 |
  }
}

verse = \lyricmode {
  \override LyricText.self-alignment-X = #LEFT
  \override LyricText.extra-offset = #'(-1 . 0)
  "Measure one and"
  ""
  "Measure two and"
  "A measure with more notes"
  ""
  "And the final 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 [also] helps!
Kieren.
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