Our Zappa Songsterr revisions: what matched a printed chart

Read from the revisions API · 2026-09-05
1tab corrected to a printed chart
6revisions citing a printed source
0of those published yet
1restore live
9restores pending
1rejected by a moderator

The answer

Zomby Woof, and only Zomby Woof

One tab out of eleven was corrected by us to match a printed transcription. Six revisions on s412162 cite Ryan Brown's Groove Analysis in DRUM Magazine, Daniel Bédard's handwritten chart, or the Drumnet drumset chart, by name, in the revision description.

None of them is published. The live revision on that tab is Kirill's r8814965. Our standing submission r8905491 is pending moderation, so the printed-chart corrections exist as a queued revision and nothing more.

Everything else we submitted was a different kind of edit. Nine other tabs carry our revisions and none of those cite a printed source. They are the 2026-08-29 ghost-note sweep, which read Songsterr's parenthesised noteheads as a defect and stripped them, plus the restores written to undo it.

The six revisions that cite a printed chart

All on Zomby Woof s412162, all submitted 2026-09-05, listed oldest first. Each later one supersedes the ones before it.

RevisionPrinted source named in the descriptionWhat it changesState
r8902998Ryan Brown (DRUM Magazine), Daniel BédardBar 2 rebarred from 10/16 into 5/16 + 5/16, matching Brown and Bédard. Bass drum moved onto one staff line, the two busiest toms spaced a third apart.superseded
r8903141Ryan Brown (DRUM Magazine), Daniel BédardSame rebar of bar 2 into two bars of five sixteenths, plus the tom spacing.superseded
r8903886DrumnetEight ghost notes restored on the snare pair immediately after the open hi-hat in the repeated fifteen-sixteen figure, four bars. Quoting the revision: Drumnet prints them and the automatic transcription had missed them entirely.superseded
r8904052Ryan Brown, Daniel Bédard, DrumnetCorrected build combining all three edits, after a lane-merge fault of ours had given ninety-nine tom notes an accent the source never had.superseded
r8905411Ryan Brown's Groove Analysis, Daniel Bédard, DrumnetThree changes, each checked against Brown and Bédard: accents on bar 1's three open hi-hats, pedal hi-hat added on the three snares that follow, and the bar 5 and 16 quintuplet accents moved onto notes 1 and 3 of each group.superseded
r8905491Ryan Brown's Groove Analysis, DrumnetThe standing submission. One change: bar 1 gains three pedal hi-hat strokes on MIDI 44, which Brown and the Drumnet chart both notate and the tab already uses in 14 other bars. The accent edits from r8905411 were withdrawn, because Songsterr renders a Guitar Pro accent as a staccato dot and that says something other than the accent Brown prints.PENDING
The one that got withdrawn on purpose is worth keeping. r8905411 moved the quintuplet accents in bars 5 and 16 onto notes 1 and 3, which is what Brown prints. r8905491 took that back, because Songsterr renders a Guitar Pro accent as a staccato dot, and a staccato dot states something other than the accent Brown wrote. Matching the printed page in the source file would have produced the wrong glyph on the published tab.

Every tab we revised, live against pending

TabAlbumPublished revision nowByOur latest StateWhat the live state is
Zomby WoofOver-Nite Sensationr8814965Kirillr8905491pendingNine revisions of ours. Six cite the printed charts and are listed above. The other three, r8766102, r8787022 and r8875780, are the ghost sweep and notation-convention edits and cite nothing printed.
Zomby Woof, our second uploadOver-Nite Sensationr8906157Brandon chavezr8906157LIVEOur own tab, so the restore published directly. It puts back the 10 ghost notes our r8766178 had stripped. Not a match to a printed chart, a repair of our own damage.
MontanaOver-Nite Sensationr8787106Brandon chavezr8907028pendingLive state is our staccato-dot conversion of the 317 quiet hits. The restore putting the ghost noteheads back is submitted and waiting.
Inca RoadsOne Size Fits Allr8769026Brandon chavezr8907511pendingLive state is our strip of 165 ghost notes from the Chester Thompson staff. Restore submitted.
Catholic GirlsJoe's Garager8788801Brandon chavezr8907778pendingLive state is our strip of 16 ghost notes. Restore submitted.
Fembot in a Wet T-ShirtJoe's Garager8769165Brandon chavezr8907601pendingLive state is our strip of 57 ghost notes from the Vinnie Colaiuta staff. Restore submitted.
Watermelon in Easter HayJoe's Garager8768414Brandon chavezr8908034pendingThe largest single loss: our strip removed 1,317 parenthesised noteheads and it is still the published state. Restore submitted.
Nanook Rubs ItApostrophe (')r8768967Brandon chavezr8907423pendingLive state is our strip of 168 ghost notes, over a revision the original author had titled 'Drums: marked ghost notes'. Restore submitted.
Nanook SuiteApostrophe (')r8769001Brandon chavezr8907360pendingLive state is our strip of 168 ghost notes. Restore submitted.
Keep It GreaseyJoe's Garager8852151Ben Dibden1r8768457BLOCKEDA moderator rejected our stripping revision, so it never published. The 629 ghost notes and 60 accents are intact on the live tab, which is why Keep It Greasey measures as the richest drum tab in the whole audit. Moderation saved this one.
Uncle Meat (YCDTOSA Vol. 2)outside the five recordsr8788757Brandon chavezr8909627pendingLive state is our strip of 24 ghost notes from the Percussions staff. Three restore attempts, the first two carrying errors of our own, superseded by r8909627.
Moderation saved Keep It Greasey. Our stripping revision r8768457 on s604777 carries isBlocked, so a moderator rejected it and it never published. That tab still holds its 629 ghost notes and 60 accents, which is why it measures as the richest drum transcription across all five records.
A tab being "ours" is not the same as the transcription being ours. On eight of these the published revision is under Brandon's name only because our sweep revision is the most recent accepted one. The underlying transcription is someone else's work in every case, and the pending restores exist to hand it back the way its author wrote it.

Method

Revision history comes from songsterr.com/api/meta/<songId>/revisions, filtered to the author name Brandon chavez, with the full description text read for each one. A revision counts as matched to a printed chart only when the description names the source: Ryan Brown, DRUM Magazine, Groove Analysis, Daniel Bédard, or Drumnet. Live state comes from /api/meta/<songId>, comparing revisionId against our newest submission, and isBlocked identifies a moderator rejection.