Re: adding staves to a piano part...

[Kieren Richard MacMillan]

Hi, Sterling:

> Seems I am having troubles doing it as such:
> drums = {
>       \drummode notes
>       }
> drums2 = {
>        \drummode notes
>       }
> etc.
> and then adding the drums in the \score section with '\new DrumStaff'
> commands.  Am I going about this in a correct manor?

PianoStaff is a special case (like GrandStaff) -- most of the time,  
you'll just use Staff.

There are some good examples in the docs: check them out!
<http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.5/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/ 
Example-templates.html#Example-templates>

Best wishes,
Kieren.