Joe’s Garage vs the Songsterr GPs

Album take · full-song · AI transcription · drums present · measured 2026-09-05
23tabs measured
8AI transcriptions
7pass all four filters
7songs covered
11,412drum notes in the keepers

The question

Three acts, nineteen tracks, the Vinnie Colaiuta and Warren Cuccurullo band. This page asks one narrow question of Songsterr's Joe’s Garage 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: Joe’s Garage: Acts I, II & III / 1987 / 2e620afe-b861-442a-8f85-df5ad7fac350

The tabs that pass all four

SongTabBarsTab lengthAlbumDeltaDrum notesAll stavesMeters written
Crew Sluts4982983
AI · John Strandberg
1946:266:32-1.5%2,7236,2774/4×192, 2/4×2
Sy Borgs3362954
AI · Matthieu D ambra
2818:588:56+0.5%2,3768,3434/4×261, 3/4×11, 2/4×9
Joe's Garages615252
n/a · Adam Borgstrom
1716:126:15-0.8%1,9492,8614/4×171
Dong Work For Yudas768189
AI · Kaiden Zalla
1464:035:03-19.7%1,6064,1254/4×146
Outside Nows1200335
AI · Q imon
705:265:50-6.7%1,5373,93312/8×45, 15/8×18, 10/8×6, 1/8
Lucille Has Messed My Mind Ups187088
AI · Kevin Sheppard
1755:505:43+2.0%1,0494,8964/4×175
Catholic Girlss187085
AI · Jacob
1244:194:26-2.3%1723804/4×124
A drum staff that passes the filter can still be thin. Catholic Girls (s187085, 172 notes) clears the has-drums test on a technicality, since the staff holds real notes across a full-length tab. Density that low over that many bars points to a sparse upload rather than a complete drum transcription. It is listed as a pass because it meets the stated condition, and flagged here so the number is read correctly.

Song by song, where more than one tab exists

A Token Of My Extreme

TabProvenanceBarsLengthDeltaDrum notesEmpty stavesVerdict
s817574
A Token Of My Extreme
ai=False
via=GP
50:15-95.5%66nonenot AI
s627331
A Token Of My Extreme (Important Parts)
ai=False
via=None
100:30-90.9%0nonenot AI

Catholic Girls

TabProvenanceBarsLengthDeltaDrum notesEmpty stavesVerdict
s749523
Catholic Girls
ai=False
via=GP
1274:03-8.5%1,847nonenot AI
s187085
Catholic Girls
ai=True
via=AI
1244:19-2.3%172nonepasses all three

Joe's Garage

TabProvenanceBarsLengthDeltaDrum notesEmpty stavesVerdict
s187096
Joe's Garage
ai=False
via=Editor
1376:24+2.6%2,027nonenot AI
s615252
Joe's garage
ai=True
via=None
1716:12-0.8%1,949nonepasses all three

Keep It Greasey

TabProvenanceBarsLengthDeltaDrum notesEmpty stavesVerdict
s604777
Keep It Greasey
ai=False
via=Editor
2488:18-0.7%4,948nonenot AI
s2832032
Keep It Greasy
ai=True
via=AI
1232:54-65.1%1,863nonenot full length
s754950
Keep It Greasey (Live 1980)
ai=False
via=GP
1212:54-65.2%0nonenot AI

Outside Now

TabProvenanceBarsLengthDeltaDrum notesEmpty stavesVerdict
s1200335
Outside Now (Original Solo) - Guitar Album
ai=True
via=AI
705:26-6.7%1,537nonepasses all three
s4552353
Outside Now
ai=False
via=Editor
755:57+2.1%567nonenot AI

The Central Scrutinizer

TabProvenanceBarsLengthDeltaDrum notesEmpty stavesVerdict
s3554079
The Central Scrutinizer
ai=False
via=Editor
923:30+3.6%1,465nonenot AI
s796119
The Central Scrutinizer (Bass Intro)
ai=False
via=GP
271:01-69.9%0nonenot AI

Every tab measured on this record

SongTabAIBarsLengthAlbumDeltaDrumsTotal notesEmpty staves
A Token Of My Extremes817574no50:155:30-95.5%66106—
A Token Of My Extremes627331no100:305:30-90.9%093—
Catholic Girlss749523no1274:034:26-8.5%1,8476,380—
Catholic Girlss187085AI1244:194:26-2.3%172380—
Crew Sluts4982983AI1946:266:32-1.5%2,7236,277—
Dong Work For Yudas768189AI1464:035:03-19.7%1,6064,125Electric Bass (finger)
Fembot In A Wet T-Shirts748459no842:404:45-43.7%1,1973,713—
Joe's Garages187096no1376:246:15+2.6%2,0275,232—
Joe's Garages615252AI1716:126:15-0.8%1,9492,861—
Keep It Greaseys604777no2488:188:22-0.7%4,94814,444—
Keep It Greaseys2832032AI1232:548:22-65.1%1,8633,690—
Keep It Greaseys754950no1212:548:22-65.2%0406—
Lucille Has Messed My Mind Ups187088AI1755:505:43+2.0%1,0494,896—
On The Buss1309087no1194:394:18+8.5%0979—
Outside Nows1200335AI705:265:50-6.7%1,5373,933—
Outside Nows4552353no755:575:50+2.1%5673,408—
Packard Gooses35875no51211:5411:34+2.9%4,76813,572—
Stick It Outs980112no1684:204:34-5.1%01,392—
Sy Borgs3362954AI2818:588:56+0.5%2,3768,343—
The Central Scrutinizers3554079no923:303:23+3.6%1,4653,019—
The Central Scrutinizers796119no271:013:23-69.9%0169—
Watermelon In Easter Hays35881no1058:259:09-7.9%2,0914,856—
Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?s3098900no462:192:36-10.4%5271,339—
1 of 23 tabs on this record ship at least one staff holding nothing but rests. That staff appears in the track list and plays as silence. Counting parts rather than notes would score those tabs as complete.

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.