Zappa Program Scope

34Zappa song ids in play

3,842ghost flags stripped

17affected songs

16songs awaiting a moderator

1restoration public

12printed charts on disk

3charts ever applied

87open queue items

17 / 17restores verified in notation

32published audit pages

Why this page exists

The 2026-09-06 handoff named one lock, s35881 Watermelon In Easter Hay, and described two audio repairs on that one song. It carried none of the program around it. A chat reading only that document would not know about fifteen other songs holding a restore revision in a moderator queue, nine printed transcriptions sitting unapplied, or thirty-two published audit pages. This page is the outline that was missing.

The plan, corrected
Phase 1 audit, per song
What the moderators said
Disk verification of the restores
The coverage gate, and a 17th song
The program in one paragraph
Six workstreams
The ghost-note sweep and its damage
The restore fleet, live status
Two tabs the moderators saved
Tab against printed chart
Coverage and redo ranking
Per-song audio forensics
Findings withdrawn, never cite again
The song-id register
The gate stack
Published pages
What the next chat does first

0. The plan, corrected 2026-09-06

Phase 1 as stated is already complete, and re-uploading would cause harm

The instruction was to re-upload the ghost restores that had not gone back yet, rebuilding from the original files kept on disk. Checked song by song against the live API on 2026-09-06: all sixteen damaged tabs already carry a restore revision, and every one of them has its pre-sweep baseline on disk. Fifteen restores sit in the moderator queue and one has published. There is nothing left to send.

Sending a second restore on any of these would stack a duplicate revision behind one a moderator has yet to read. That is the failure already visible on Uncle Meat, where three restores queued at once and the third exists only to say which two should be dropped.

#	Phase	What it does	Upload method	State
1	Ghost restore	Put back every stripped parenthesised notehead, measured against the pre-sweep baseline.	Revision on the original tab, since it repairs damage done to that tab.	uploaded, awaiting moderators
1b	Rejection watch	Re-read moderation status. Rebuild from the on-disk baseline for any restore a moderator blocks.	One replacement revision, never a stack.	standing
2	Rebuild to match transcriptions	Correct each tab against the professional printed chart, bar by bar.	Create and edit a copy of the current tab. Our corrected version becomes our own tab and the original author's stays untouched.	9 charts idle, 7 songs
3	Audio-evidence repairs	Add textures the chart and tab both omit, proven from isolated kit stems.	Copy of the current tab, same as phase 2.	2 built on Watermelon

The upload rule that separates phase 1 from phase 2

A ghost restore is a repair to damage this account caused, so it belongs on the original tab as a revision. A transcription-matched rebuild is a different reading of the music, so it uses create and edit a copy of the current tab. That keeps another transcriber's work intact and puts our version beside it rather than over it. This is what the whole ghost debacle was caused by not doing.

0b. Phase 1 audit: baseline and restore, per song

Every damaged tab, its pre-sweep baseline file on this Mac, and the restore revision now carrying it. Zero gaps. Baselines live under ~/Projects/_outputs/songsterr-zappa-paren-fix/.

song id	title	flags	baseline on disk	restore	state
`s35881`	Watermelon In Easter Hay	1,317	`PRESWEEP-r7715683.gp`	`r8908034`	held
`s35886`	Muffin Man	578	`PRESWEEP-r7716657.gp`	`r8906880`	held
`s620961`	Drowning Witch	419	`PRESWEEP-r2606944.gp`	`r8908109`	held
`s35870`	Montana	317	`PRESWEEP-r7294223.gp`	`r8907028`	held
`s1105085`	The Black Page	173	`RESTORE-r7108692.gp`	`r8907247`	held
`s35878`	Nanook Suite	168	`RESTORE-r7807785.gp`	`r8907360`	held
`s35865`	Nanook Rubs It	168	`RESTORE-r4719269.gp`	`r8907423`	held
`s412178`	Inca Roads	165	`RESTORE-r7750859.gp`	`r8907511`	held
`s68248`	Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy	144	`PRESWEEP-r593836.gp`	`r8908182`	held
`s35884`	Oh No	141	`PRESWEEP-r7494834.gp`	`r8908239`	held
`s68246`	Alien Orifice	86	`PRESWEEP-r7636083.gp`	`r8907689`	held
`s35887`	What's New In Baltimore?	59	`PRESWEEP-r8555291.gp`	`r8908276`	held
`s748459`	Fembot In A Wet T-Shirt	57	`PRESWEEP-r8742638.gp`	`r8907601`	held
`s20690`	Uncle Meat (YCDTOSA Vol. 2)	24	`PRESWEEP-r24054.gp`	`r8909627`	held
`s749523`	Catholic Girls	16	`PRESWEEP-r1971732.gp`	`r8907778`	held
`s5820647`	Zomby Woof (Mothers)	10	`RESTORE-r7605020-presweep.gp`	`r8906157`	landed

0c. What the moderators actually said

Two reports on this account, both on stripping revisions, none on a restore

Read from the revisions API on 2026-09-06. Exactly two revisions carry a moderator report, and both are the sweep's own deletions rather than any repair:

Keep It Greasey s604777, r8768457, 629 flags. Moderator report, kind unclear: "It probably did not make the tab more accurate to the original performance." Blocked.
Zoot Allures s35883, r8769199, 53 flags. Same report, same wording. Blocked.

Both tabs kept every ghost flag because the block landed before publication. Across all 48 revisions this account has on Zappa tabs, no restore has drawn a report and none has been rejected. The pressure is real, and its measured source is the deletions rather than the repairs.

0d. Disk verification: the restores carry the notation, not just the wording

The revision description is self-reported and is not evidence

Brandon's correction, 2026-09-06: the submit box does not always get filled in, so a description claiming a restore proves nothing. The check that counts is the notation itself. Every .gp in the repair tree was re-counted on 2026-09-06, and the count walks Beat → Notes references rather than the file's Notes pool.

The counting trap that has already produced one wrong verdict

GPIF <Note> elements are shared definitions. Inca Roads holds 14 Note elements carrying <AntiAccent> and those 14 are referenced 174 times across beats. A grep of the raw XML returns 14 and reads as near-absence. That is how reference_inca_roads_baseline_gp_is_post_sweep came to declare a good pre-sweep baseline useless, and it was corrected on 2026-09-06. Never count a marking by grepping the pool.

Baseline is the author's pre-sweep file. After strip is our published export where one survives on disk. Restore file is the built repair. Removed is the damage the ledger claims.

song id	title	baseline	after strip	restore file	removed	verdict
`s35881`	Watermelon In Easter Hay	1,333	16	1,333	1,317	confirmed
`s35886`	Muffin Man	613	35	613	578	confirmed
`s620961`	Drowning Witch	496	77	496	419	confirmed
`s35870`	Montana	574	257	574	317	confirmed
`s1105085`	The Black Page	173	none on disk	173	173	restore matches baseline
`s35878`	Nanook Suite	171	none on disk	171	168	restore matches baseline
`s35865`	Nanook Rubs It	168	none on disk	168	168	restore matches baseline
`s412178`	Inca Roads	174	none on disk	174	165	confirmed vs live JSON
`s68248`	Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy	144	0	144	144	confirmed
`s35884`	Oh No	141	0	141	141	confirmed
`s68246`	Alien Orifice	97	11	97	86	confirmed
`s35887`	What's New In Baltimore?	59	0	59	59	confirmed
`s748459`	Fembot In A Wet T-Shirt	59	2	59	57	confirmed
`s20690`	Uncle Meat (YCDTOSA Vol. 2)	84	60	84	24	confirmed
`s749523`	Catholic Girls	16	0	16	16	confirmed
`s5820647`	Zomby Woof (Mothers)	10	0	10	10	confirmed

What the notation shows

Every restore file equals its own baseline exactly, on all sixteen songs. No restore is partial and none is a re-export of a stripped tab.
Twelve songs keep a post-strip export on disk, and all twelve confirm the damage number independently of any description. Watermelon 1,333 down to 16 is the claimed 1,317. Carolina, Oh No, Baltimore, Catholic Girls and the Mothers Zomby Woof all fell to zero.
Montana's damage is lane-visible. The baseline carries Ralph Humphrey 212 and Percussion 105, together the claimed 317, and the published export carries zero on both staves while every guitar and vocal staff is untouched.
Four songs keep no post-strip export, so the disk cannot show their damage. Inca Roads was settled against the live part JSON instead, which returns Chester Thompson 165, Frank Zappa 6 and Ruth Underwood 3, matching the disk file exactly. Black Page, Nanook Suite and Nanook Rubs It rest on baseline-equals-restore alone.

One limit worth stating

This census reads markings attached to a Note. A staccato dot attaches to a Beat in GPIF, so the Montana claim that 317 ghosts were re-written as staccato dots is outside what this count can see. The ghost side of that claim is confirmed and the dot side is not measured here.

0e. The coverage gate: sweep the account, never the ledger

A seventeenth affected song, found only by sweeping

Every earlier inventory was assembled from songs that already had a repair in flight, so a damaged tab with no repair was invisible to it. Sweeping all 328 tabs under Songsterr artistId 5912 for revisions authored by this account returned 19 songs and 45 revisions, and one of them had never been counted.

song	revision	what it did	state
`s412170` Trouble Every Day (Live)	`r8766285`	Removed 9 ghosts from the Chad Wakerman percussion staff and altered 11 beat velocities.	restored, `r8932027` submitted
`s604777` Keep It Greasey	`r8768457`	Would have removed 629 ghosts.	blocked, tab intact
`s35883` Zoot Allures	`r8769199`	Would have removed 53 ghosts.	blocked, tab intact

Authorship is not damage, and the sweep says so

Of 19 songs carrying our revisions, Zomby Woof s412162 holds 9 and none of them is a ghost strip beyond r8766102, which was superseded. A revision by this account proves nothing on its own. Each one was classified by censusing ghosts on its own drum staff against the revision that preceded it.

Two limits that stay open, stated rather than papered over

22 tabs return an empty revision history and remain unresolved after a retry. All sit in the s1870xx range: Bobby Brown, Broken Hearts, Sofa No 2, Titties And Beer, Absolutely Free, Concentration Moon and sixteen more. Nothing can be concluded about them either way.
The sweep covers artistId 5912 only. Two tabs we have touched sit under other artist strings: s5820647 "Frank Zappa, The Mothers of Invention" and s6822181 under a lowercase "frank zappa". Both were checked directly.

What s412170 needed, and why totals could never have found it

revision	date	author	ghosts on the percussion staff
`r279371`	2016-09-03	enikey87	9
`r8766285`	2026-08-29	our strip	0
`r8815000`	2026-09-01	Kirill, live today	3

Six ghosts are missing from the public tab right now, all crash (fret 49) at bar 67 beats 4 to 9, and all six notes still exist so only the flag is absent. The velocity damage is larger than the ghost damage. Our strip changed 11 beat velocities, Kirill repaired 5, and the remaining 6 govern 784 of 807 effective beat slots, because the f at bar 1 slot 6 sets the running dynamic for the whole track. The author's percussion reads f throughout and the live tab reads mp.

The repair is built and verified, and the upload is held on a gate

Built onto the live r8815000 export so Kirill's work survives, with copy-on-write where it was needed: Note 225 is referenced at 31 placements across 26 bars and was cloned, and Beat 443 sits at two slots wanting different dynamics and was cloned. Independent re-read of the generated file shows 6 ghost false to true, 0 ghosts lost, 0 other note-signature changes anywhere, 0 changes on any other track, and 0 dynamic mismatches against the author across all 807 slots.

preflight_import.py refused on GRID notated 134.0s against a 141.0s record, 4.96% off. The unmodified live base fails that gate identically and the build is timing-neutral, so the fault is inherited rather than caused. Brandon authorised a documented grid exception on 2026-09-06, and the exception is stated in the revision text so a moderator sees the reasoning.

Submitted as r8932027, 2026-09-06 21:00, tracksCount 6, createdVia GP, on moderation. The grid discrepancy stays open as separate work.

A NAMEDROP regression caught during the upload

The first build used xml.etree.ElementTree, which does not preserve CDATA. The base GPIF carries 92 CDATA blocks and the six custom track names sit among them, so Songsterr's /data/convert read them as absent and fell back to Tenor Sax, Overdriven Guitar, Electric Bass (pick), Drums and Bag pipe. That is the exact failure every restore description in this campaign asks moderators to avoid. Blanket re-wrapping by tag is unsafe, since <Name> appears 220 times and only 18 are CDATA. The fix is to serialize with lxml under XMLParser(strip_cdata=False), which is on /usr/bin/python3 here and not on the default python3. The rebuild kept 92 of 92 blocks and convert returned all six names.

1. The program in one paragraph

Frank Zappa drum transcriptions on Songsterr are being repaired against professional printed charts and against isolated drum stems. The work has four surfaces. A notation sweep run on 2026-08-29 and 2026-08-30 damaged twenty community tabs and that damage is being undone one song at a time. Separately, each tab is being checked bar by bar against transcriptions by Ryan Brown, Daniel Bédard, Todd Bishop, Pete Sweeney and the Drumnet charts. Separately again, isolated kit stems are being used to find textures the tabs omit entirely. Underneath all three sits a coverage question, which songs have a drum reading of the album take at all.

2. Six workstreams

#	Workstream	What it decides	State
1	Ghost-note restoration	Putting back the 3,842 parenthesised noteheads a sweep removed from other people's tabs.	17 revisions held
2	Ghost adjudication	Whether a ghost flag on a ride, hat or tambourine carries the quiet-snare meaning. Watermelon 1,316 on ride, Oh No 141 on closed hat, Carolina 144 on tambourine.	evidence model rebuilt
3	Tab against printed chart	Bar-level agreement between a tab and a professional transcription. Six songs measured so far.	9 charts idle
4	Audio forensics per song	What the tab omits that the isolated kit proves. Foot-pedal hi-hat, snare rebound texture, cymbal saturation, grid desync.	2 repairs built, unshipped
5	Coverage inventory	Which of 37 songs across three albums have a drum reading of the album take.	published
6	Process gates	Song locking, chat ceilings, drift measurement, handoff shape.	fourth amendment live

3. The ghost-note sweep and its damage

What happened, in three sentences

Songsterr draws a ghost note as a notehead inside round brackets, which is the correct rendering. A sweep read those brackets as a defect and submitted revisions removing them across twenty Frank Zappa tabs. Sixteen of those stripping revisions published and went live.

Root cause has three layers. A house rule from stems-to-guitar-pro-drums, written for generated output, was applied to published community transcriptions. GPIF spells a ghost as <AntiAccent>Normal</AntiAccent>, so a search for <Ghost> returned zero and that zero was read as absence. The preservation audit compared pitch, rhythm and position across 120,579 beat events, and articulation sat outside what it measured.

Lane breakdown matters, because a ghost on a snare is unambiguous and a ghost on a ride is a different question. Counted 2026-09-05 by fetching each tab's pre-sweep revision.

song id	title	flags	where they sat	restore
`s35881`	Watermelon In Easter Hay	1,317	Ride 1,316, Crash 1. Zero snare.	`r8908034` held
`s35886`	Muffin Man	578	Snare 481, Snare2 23, then hats, crashes, toms	`r8906880` held
`s620961`	Drowning Witch	419	Ride 128, Snare 101, HatClosed 61, Kick 41, TomLow 33	`r8908109` held
`s35870`	Montana	317	Snare 95, Tambourine 83, Snare2 79, Kick 24	`r8907028` held
`s1105085`	The Black Page	173	Snare 170, HatPedal 3	`r8907247` held
`s35878`	Nanook Suite	168	Snare 168	`r8907360` held
`s35865`	Nanook Rubs It	168	Snare 168	`r8907423` held
`s412178`	Inca Roads	165	Snare 134, Crash 14, Kick 7	`r8907511` held
`s68248`	Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy	144	Tambourine 144. Zero snare.	`r8908182` held
`s35884`	Oh No	141	HatClosed 141. Zero snare.	`r8908239` held
`s68246`	Alien Orifice	86	Snare 33, Crash 33, Crash2 14	`r8907689` held
`s35887`	What's New In Baltimore?	59	Ride 48, Snare 4, Crash 4	`r8908276` held
`s748459`	Fembot In A Wet T-Shirt	57	Snare 53, HatPedal 4	`r8907601` held
`s20690`	Uncle Meat (YCDTOSA Vol. 2)	24	Spread across toms, snare 4, ride bell 4	`r8909627` held
`s749523`	Catholic Girls	16	Snare 16	`r8907778` held
`s5820647`	Zomby Woof (Mothers tab)	10	Snare 10	LANDED
Total		3,842	1,549 on snare, 2,293 on other lanes

4. The restore fleet, live status

DISPROVEN 2026-09-06: this section's original claim was wrong

This page first said every affected song carried a restore. An account-wide revision sweep across all 328 Zappa tabs then found Trouble Every Day (Live) s412170, damaged by our strip r8766285 and carrying no restore at all. The old 16-song ledger could not see it, because that ledger was built from the songs that already had a repair in flight. See section 0e.

For the sixteen songs the ledger did cover, every stripped flag has a restore built

Read live from api/meta/<songId>/revisions on 2026-09-06. 3,832 flags across 15 songs sit in restore revisions held on moderation, all submitted on 2026-09-05 between 17:22 and 19:43. The remaining 10 flags, on the Mothers Zomby Woof tab s5820647, already landed. Nothing in the damage ledger is unaccounted for.

Reconciled 2026-09-06. Adding Trouble Every Day (Live) s412170 and its r8932027 takes the board to 16 songs held on moderation and 1 public, across 17 affected songs. Uncle Meat holds three queued revisions on one song, so the count of held revisions runs higher than the count of held songs.

Uncle Meat carries a three-deep stack

s20690 holds r8907892, r8907952 and r8909627 all on moderation at once. The newest supersedes both earlier ones and says so in its description. A stack that deep is the one-upload rule breaking, and the repair is to stop uploading rather than to delete queued revisions.

Zomby Woof s412162 is closed

21 revisions, 9 authored here, none held and none blocked. The published revision is r8918601 by Nikita. This is the one song that carried three separate printed charts through to a cited revision.

5. Two tabs the moderators saved

Two stripping revisions were blocked before they could publish, so those tabs still carry every ghost flag they always had. No restore is needed on either.

song id	title	flags at risk	blocked revision	outcome
`s604777`	Keep It Greasey	629	`r8768457`	Moderator blocked the stripping revision. All 629 flags survive on the live tab.
`s35883`	Zoot Allures	53	`r8769199`	Moderator blocked the stripping revision. All 53 flags survive on the live tab.

A separate six revisions on Alien Orifice s68246 are blocked, all authored by Ben Dibden1 in late 2025 on guitar staves, unrelated to this program.

6. Tab against printed chart

Twelve charts on disk, three ever applied, and all three on one song

Ryan Brown, Daniel Bédard and the Drumnet chart were all used on Zomby Woof, cited by name in r8905411 and r8905491. Across every other song, a professional transcription has sat on disk and no revision has ever cited it. Nine charts covering seven songs are idle.

Six songs have a bar-level comparison finished: Zomby Woof, Andy, Drowning Witch, Keep It Greasey, The Central Scrutinizer and Watermelon In Easter Hay. Two concrete findings from that pass:

Drowning Witch s620961. Eight of nine eighths agree in the 9/8 passage at 2:10. The seventh eighth reads kick in the chart and snare in the tab, across all four bars. The tab also writes nine closed hi-hats with zero open and zero pedal where the chart shows a circled X.
Andy s21495. Leonard's human tab tracks the chart. Kick agrees within one stroke in all eight compared bars. The snare difference is unreported, because a 12-pixel-per-space scan fragments beams and the detector returned 31 to 43 heads per bar where a dozen exist.

The chart archive lives at ~/Projects/_outputs/zappa-drum-sources/ with ARCHIVE-STATE.md as its manifest. Kasper Sloots supplies Zappa's own capital-letter section scheme with timestamps and bar ranges, which is a free bar map for any audit.

7. Coverage and redo ranking

Thirty-seven songs across Apostrophe ('), One Size Fits All and Joe's Garage were inventoried in album order from each record's MusicBrainz release. Eleven have an AI drum tab of the album take. Twenty-four have any drum tab of the album take. Five have an AI tab of a live take only, which never counts as coverage of the studio recording.

The blocker on the repair plan is source coverage

Across Over-Nite Sensation, One Size Fits All and Roxy & Elsewhere, 26 songs carry a drum tab and only 2 have a professional drum chart on disk. Eighteen have nothing. Any row claiming a mismatch on those songs would be invented, so they read as not yet measured.

Apostrophe (') ranks first for a redo. Five minutes fifty with no drum reading of the studio take. The studio tab s35873 carries zero drum tracks. The AI tab is a 1974 Los Angeles live performance of a different night. The only studio notation in the archive is Todd Bishop's two-system excerpt of the Jim Gordon break starting at 3:22.

8. Per-song audio forensics

Watermelon In Easter Hay `s35881`, furthest along

Repair 1, foot-pedal hi-hat, confirmed and built

The tab notates six Pedal Hi-Hat events across the whole song. The isolated hat stem carries a steady chick on the quarter. Periodic-subsequence test gives period 1.0800 s against the GP quarter of 1.0842 s at a snare-anchored 55.34 BPM. 178 of 505 grid slots carry a hat onset, 35% against a 26% chance baseline. Brandon's representative chicks at 181.93, 183.03, 184.10 and 185.19 s land in the stem at 181.92, 183.00, 184.09 and 185.17 s. Roughly 172 events are missing. Queue q-2026-09-06-ca2848.

Repair 2, snare rebound texture, confirmed

The tab carries 193 snare events with zero ghost flags. Brandon measured 202 principal snare attacks, 196 carrying at least one substantially quieter follow-up inside 250 ms and 178 carrying two, the first near 92 ms and the second near 156 ms. Use his counts. My own run over-detected principals at 411. Queue q-2026-09-06-8ce0a9.

The alignment anchor, settled

193 notated snare hits against 615 detected snare onsets gives offset 37.60 s, scale 1.012, effective 55.34 BPM, matching 90 of 193 within 80 ms. That is 47% against an 18% chance baseline, real at 2.6 times chance. Every audio measurement on this song uses that alignment.

Open, ship no deletion revision

The remaining 1,123 ride ghosts are unexplained. The cymbal-stem method gives no trustworthy verdict, since a 41% chance baseline swallows the signal at ghosts 47% and plain 55%. This needs an onset method with a lower chance baseline. Queue q-2026-09-06-1492ba.

Other songs with audio work on disk

Cosmik Debris s412177. Hi-hat audit with source wav, Demucs drums stem, and a DrumSep six-lane split into kick, snare, toms, hi-hat, ride and crash. The analysis scripts lane_verdict.py, hh_verdict.py and hat_analyze.py are reusable on any song.
Nanook Rubs It s35865. Desync sits on the grid rather than on the notes. Sync forensics published.
Sofa No. 1 s6822181. AI cymbal saturation audit. Kasper Sloots gives the section map: A bars 1 to 22 at 0:00, B bars 23 to 36 at 0:34, C bars 37 to 64 at 0:56, D bars 65 to 79 at 1:39, E bars 80 to 103 at 2:01, end 2:38.
Inca Roads s412178. Drum audit published, restore held.

9. Findings withdrawn, never cite again

The Watermelon alignment at offset 33.00 s and scale 1.020. It scored 64% within 50 ms against a 58% chance baseline, so it established nothing.
The Mann-Whitney z = -0.40 no-dynamic-difference result, which rested on that alignment.
The claim that the 1,316 Watermelon ride flags are a proven intentional accent grid.
The rebound-coincidence line. Cymbal-lane ghosts hit rebound times at 7.7% to 9.9% against chance baselines of 11.1% to 20.7%, below chance at every picker setting tested.
The claim that a 23.3 s duration gap is a normal lead-in or tail on a YouTube upload. That was invented and the video was never inspected.

Closed by measurement, do not reopen

The 193 post-snare ride ghosts on Watermelon are not misplaced snare rebounds. The tab places them at a rigid 271 ms after the snare, one GP sixteenth, with the 10th and 90th percentiles both at 271 ms. The audio rebounds land at 70 to 92 ms and 134 to 156 ms.

10. The song-id register

Titles collide in this catalogue, so the song id governs and the title never does. Two tabs are titled Zomby Woof and two are titled Montana. Verify with api/meta/<songId> before any edit.

song id	title	artist	trk/drum	live rev	author	state
`s68246`	Alien Orifice	Frank Zappa	10/1	`r8769118`	Brandon chavez	restore r8907689 held
`s21495`	Andy	Frank Zappa	9/1	`r41271`	Leonard	chart-matched, untouched
`s35873`	Apostrophe'	Frank Zappa	4/0	`r2085891`	Kasper Jorgensen	no drum track at all
`s187082`	Camarillo Brillo	Frank Zappa	5/1	`r5563501`	Foxy Scraps	AI tab, unexamined
`s68248`	Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy	Frank Zappa	9/1	`r8769058`	Brandon chavez	restore r8908182 held
`s749523`	Catholic Girls	Frank Zappa	9/1	`r8788801`	Brandon chavez	restore r8907778 held
`s412177`	Cosmik Debris	Frank Zappa	6/1	`r3723283`	femboy.gardevoir	hi-hat audit published
`s1154774`	Cosmik Debris Live	Frank Zappa	4/1	`r1540143`	DavidxHanes	AI tab, live take
`s35866`	Don't Eat The Yellow Snow	Frank Zappa	7/1	`r8557200`	MarkDubya	untouched
`s768189`	Dong Work For Yuda	Frank Zappa	4/1	`r971284`	Kaiden Zalla	AI tab, Pete Sweeney chart idle
`s2549677`	Dont Eat The Yellow Snow	Frank Zappa	4/1	`r3361342`	Hodd Toward	AI duplicate
`s620961`	Drowning Witch	Frank Zappa	16/1	`r8768566`	Brandon chavez	restore r8908109 held
`s35864`	Father O'Blivion	Frank Zappa	8/1	`r4181868`	femboy.gardevoir	untouched
`s748459`	Fembot In A Wet T-Shirt	Frank Zappa	9/1	`r8769165`	Brandon chavez	restore r8907601 held
`s412178`	Inca Roads	Frank Zappa	12/2	`r8769026`	Brandon chavez	restore r8907511 held
`s604777`	Keep It Greasey	Frank Zappa	9/1	`r8852151`	Ben Dibden1	strip blocked, tab intact
`s35870`	Montana	Frank Zappa	18/3	`r8787106`	Brandon chavez	restore r8907028 held, dots to undo
`s3316614`	Montana (A Token Of His Extreme)	Frank Zappa	5/1	`r4352288`	Mario Junior	AI tab, live take
`s35886`	Muffin Man	Frank Zappa	5/1	`r8768517`	Brandon chavez	restore r8906880 held
`s35865`	Nanook Rubs It	Frank Zappa	9/1	`r8768967`	Brandon chavez	restore r8907423 held, grid desync
`s35878`	Nanook Suite	Frank Zappa	11/1	`r8769001`	Brandon chavez	restore r8907360 held
`s35884`	Oh No	Frank Zappa	6/1	`r8769089`	Brandon chavez	restore r8908239 held
`s35889`	Peaches En Regalia	Frank Zappa	11/2	`r7048017`	Oleg Kalbenko	untouched
`s627774`	Pygmy Twylyte	Frank Zappa	2/1	`r749948`	Deleted user	AI tab, unexamined
`s6822181`	Sofa No. 1	frank zappa	4/1	`r8906238`	Brandon chavez	AI cymbal saturation audit
`s1105085`	The Black Page	Frank Zappa	4/1	`r8768613`	Brandon chavez	restore r8907247 held
`s3554079`	The Central Scrutinizer	Frank Zappa	4/1	`r4658080`	femboy.gardevoir	chart-compared
`s412170`	Trouble Every Day (Live)	Frank Zappa	6/1	`r8815000`	Kirill	restored, `r8932027` held
`s20690`	Uncle Meat (YCDTOSA Vol. 2)	Frank Zappa	11/1	`r8788757`	Brandon chavez	3 restores stacked, r8909627 wins
`s35881`	Watermelon In Easter Hay	Frank Zappa	9/1	`r8768414`	Brandon chavez	restore r8908034 held, 2 repairs built
`s35887`	What's New In Baltimore?	Frank Zappa	7/1	`r8769141`	Brandon chavez	restore r8908276 held
`s412162`	Zomby Woof	Frank Zappa	10/1	`r8918601`	Nikita	CLOSED, nothing held
`s5820647`	Zomby Woof (Mothers)	Frank Zappa, The Mothers	5/1	`r8906157`	Brandon chavez	restore LANDED
`s35883`	Zoot Allures	Frank Zappa	5/1	`r7179991`	Ben Dibden1	strip blocked, tab intact

11. The gate stack

One song at a time survives. One song per chat is retired.

The fourth amendment, written 2026-09-06, measured 77 of 164 open queue items sitting in the Zappa lane, 47% of the backlog, with four fresh chats promised for deferred songs and zero opened. A finished song now re-locks inside the same chat. The lock governs attention and carries no authority to stop.

Precedence. The completion contract wins. The 24-hour or 400-turn ceiling wins next, as a handover naming the successor id. The single-song lock applies underneath both.
The lock keys on the song id. Write it as one line and treat it as the only legal target. Fetch api/meta/<songId> and read title and artist back before editing.
Branch three. When an outside holder blocks the upload, the chat keeps working evidence on that same song. The evidence list is finite and has five items, so the branch has a bottom.
A queue item is never authorization to switch songs.
The ceiling hands over. It never empties the queue and never converts open work into something that needs its own chat.

Measured drift that produced these rules: session c1e4ffee ran 113.2 hours with 3,208 assistant turns against 82 typed turns, a ratio of 39 to 1, and carried three song ids inside a chat allowed one.

12. Published pages

Thirty-two audit pages are live on GitHub Pages. Sources under ~/Projects/drwu-htmls/public/<route>/.

13. What the next chat does first

Read this page before locking anything.
Re-read moderation status live. Seventeen revisions were held on 2026-09-06 and a moderator decision changes the whole board. Precedent turnaround on r8769058 was about 58 hours.
Lock one song id and write the lock line out loud.
Send no second ghost restore. All sixteen are uploaded and one moderator decision changes the board.
Ship Watermelon Repair 1, the foot-pedal hi-hat, against PRESWEEP-r7715683.gp, as a copy of the current tab. Verify by set difference that every pre-existing event survives and only pedal hi-hat is added.
Do not ship a deletion revision against the 1,123 unexplained ride flags.
When that song closes, re-lock the next Zappa id inside the same chat and announce it.