One Size Fits All vs the Songsterr GPs

Album take · full-song · AI transcription · drums present · measured 2026-09-05
13tabs measured
6AI transcriptions
3pass all four filters
3songs covered
5,755drum notes in the keepers

The question

Nine tracks, the last studio record billed to the Mothers Of Invention. This page asks one narrow question of Songsterr's One Size Fits All tabs: which of them is a full-song AI transcription that carries a drum part. Those three conditions are the filter, and every tab on the record is measured against them from Songsterr's own notation JSON.

This is the same measurement pipeline as the Over-Nite Sensation and Roxy & Elsewhere page, pointed at a different record. The duration arithmetic there was checked against two published tabs and reproduced both to the hundredth of a second, so the numbers below rest on a validated method.

The four filters, stated before the results

FilterHow it is measuredWhy it can fail
Full song The tab's own duration, computed from its signatures and tempo automation, against the album track length from MusicBrainz. Inside ±20 percent counts as full-song coverage. A tab can be an excerpt, a bass intro, a solo lift, or a single verse looped.
AI transcription Songsterr's own aiGenerated flag on the meta API, plus its createdVia field reading AI. The two fields disagree on some tabs. Both are reported below rather than merged silently.
The album take The tab must transcribe the studio performance. A tab that titles itself a live take is excluded whatever its duration, and a studio-titled tab whose length falls outside the band is recorded as unmatched. A live tab can sit close to the album length and still be a different performance, with its own meters, tempos and arrangement.
Has drums A drum staff carrying real notes. Counts are rest-excluded, since Songsterr emits a {"rest": true} object inside each beat's note list. A staff can exist and hold nothing but rests, which reads as a drum part and plays as silence.

Album reference release: One Size Fits All / 1975 / 0836aef5-1e2c-4d75-8440-675053311e99

The tabs that pass all four

SongTabBarsTab lengthAlbumDeltaDrum notesAll stavesMeters written
Po-Jama Peoples5469788
AI · gentle sadist
1977:517:38+2.9%3,0827,6634/4×185, 5/4×10, 7/8, 3/4
Florentine Pogens2891451
AI · Frank
1315:385:23+4.9%1,6283,8664/4×126, 2/4×5
Can't Afford No Shoess2857465
AI · Aaron Albrecht
892:382:37+0.8%1,0453,9274/4×89
AI drum tabs excluded as live takes. These carry drums and would pass on duration alone, and they transcribe a different performance, so they are not counted as coverage of the album take:
SongTabBarsLengthvs albumDrum notes
Inca Roads
Inca Roads (Helsinki)
s28249833229:48+12.2%5,016
Inca Roads
Inca Roads (Helsinki really)
s282499433111:01+26.0%4,599

Song by song, where more than one tab exists

Florentine Pogen

TabProvenanceBarsLengthDeltaDrum notesEmpty stavesVerdict
s2891451
Florentine Pogen (full)
ai=True
via=AI
1315:38+4.9%1,628nonepasses all three
s2024455
Florentine Pogen
ai=False
via=Editor
1325:31+2.6%112nonenot AI

Inca Roads

TabProvenanceBarsLengthDeltaDrum notesEmpty stavesVerdict
s2824983
Inca Roads (Helsinki)
ai=True
via=AI
3229:48+12.2%5,016nonenot full length
s2824994
Inca Roads (Helsinki really)
ai=True
via=AI
33111:01+26.0%4,599nonenot full length
s412178
Inca Roads
ai=False
via=GP
3228:53+1.7%3,373nonenot AI
s2440098
Inca Roads HL
ai=False
via=Editor
321:06-87.4%0nonenot AI

Sofa No. 2

TabProvenanceBarsLengthDeltaDrum notesEmpty stavesVerdict
s412180
Sofa No 2
ai=False
via=None
932:54+10.4%0nonenot AI
s187106
Sofa No 2
ai=None
via=None
0n/an/a0nonenot AI

Every tab measured on this record

SongTabAIBarsLengthAlbumDeltaDrumsTotal notesEmpty staves
Andys21495no1765:296:03-9.3%2,4616,812—
Can't Afford No Shoess2857465AI892:382:37+0.8%1,0453,927—
Evelyn, A Modified Dogs4430002AI331:061:05+1.5%0145—
Florentine Pogens2891451AI1315:385:23+4.9%1,6283,866—
Florentine Pogens2024455no1325:315:23+2.6%112278—
Inca Roadss2824983AI3229:488:45+12.2%5,0169,730—
Inca Roadss2824994AI33111:018:45+26.0%4,5999,024—
Inca Roadss412178no3228:538:45+1.7%3,3737,636—
Inca Roadss2440098no321:068:45-87.4%0209—
Po-Jama Peoples5469788AI1977:517:38+2.9%3,0827,663—
San Ber'dinos412171no853:045:51-47.5%02,777—
Sofa No. 2s412180no932:542:38+10.4%01,777—
Sofa No. 2s187106no0n/a2:38n/a00—

Method

Every number here is read from Songsterr's own JSON, with no browser and no login, on the route recorded in the songsterr-tab-guide skill:

https://www.songsterr.com/api/meta/{songId} → revisionId, image, tracks[]
https://dqsljvtekg760.cloudfront.net/{songId}/{revisionId}/{image}/{partId}.json

Bars, meters, tempo automation and note counts come from that notation JSON directly. Nothing is read off a rendered screenshot. Note counts exclude rests. Tab duration is computed by walking each measure at its own signature and the tempo in force, including tempo marks that land mid-bar.

The duration arithmetic was validated before it was used here. Run against the two public Zomby Woof tabs from the earlier page, it returned 114 bars at 88 bpm and 5:03.86, and 123 bars at 89 bpm and 5:30.84. Both match the published figures to the hundredth of a second, and the bar and tempo readings match exactly.

Album track lengths come from MusicBrainz, from the release named at the top of this page, rather than from recall. That mattered: an earlier pass of this work carried remembered track times that were wrong by minutes on several Joe's Garage tracks, which flipped the full-song verdict on two tabs.

Honest limits

A label match is not a verified transcription. Every measurement here is structural: length, bar count, meter labels, note density, which staves carry notes. None of it establishes that the drums are accurate, that the cymbals are right, that the orchestration is playable, or that the attacks land where the recording puts them. Settling any of that needs the album master alongside the tab.
The parenthesised-note count from the earlier page is not reproduced here. On that page the figure came from a field this pass cannot confirm. Checked against the current revisions, one of the two source tabs carries the count in its staccato field and the other carries no note-level flags whatsoever, so the two cannot come from one field. Rather than publish a number whose source is uncertain, this page omits the column and says why.
Correction, 5 September. The AI flag is two fields answering two questions. Songsterr exposes aiGenerated and createdVia. A first version of this page counted a tab as AI when either one said so. Across 49 tabs that union changed exactly one row, and it changed it on the weaker signal: s412177 Cosmik Debris reads aiGenerated=false with createdVia=AI, and carries prevRevisionId 2010328 and 9,376 views. It is a long-standing tab whose latest revision was submitted through the AI route. aiGenerated records whether the tab originated as AI; createdVia records how the current revision was produced. aiGenerated is now the authority, and the revision route is reported beside it rather than merged into it. Both are printed per tab so the call stays checkable.
The ±20 percent band is a choice. It is wide enough to admit a tab that notates a fade or a count-in differently from the master, and narrow enough to exclude an excerpt. A tab sitting near the edge of the band is a coverage question rather than a settled verdict.