Thanks to everyone who offered solutions and advice, very happy and excited to be able to use LilyPond to accomplish everything I set out to do. Everything has been resolved!
[Screenshot 2024-01-20 183043.png] This is the code that made the drumroll equivalent to the original image for future reference (it may help others): % Beam \override Beam.color = "turquoise" \override Beam.damping = #+inf.0 \override Beam.gap = 0 \override Beam.positions = #'(-3 . -3) % Stem Tremolo \override StemTremolo.color = "turquoise" \override StemTremolo.slope = 0.45 \override StemTremolo.shape = #'rectangle \override StemTremolo.Y-offset = #-2.5 \override StemTremolo.beam-width = 2\override StemTremolo.beam-thickness= 0.4 \override StemTremolo.beam-width = #1.5 And the code for the spacing: \break \once \override Score.NonMusicalPaperColumn .line-break-system-details = #'((Y-offset . 45)) Cheers
