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Music notation tells you the note, suggests which finger to use (both hands), how long the note lasts and the rests in between - plus much more. It's better than tab - even for guitarists. Also, musicians who play other instruments and not just the guitar can read the music too (although I can hear the chorus of "who cares?" rising as I typed that...).
I've seen saxophone tab and it's not pretty. (Well, no I haven't, but if it existed it would definitely be ugly)
Having said that, once I stopped taking classical guitar lessons I've spent a lot more time reading tab than staves - because that's what the people who transcribed the music are usually able to write. However, if the music book includes both tab and staves, there is much more useful info on the stave.
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Lots of people have said "Because there's a better alternative already available that every musician could understand (if they learnt it), not just players of fretted stringed instruments".
So if you can read notation then you've got no reason to further develop tab - other than to communicate with people who cannot read notation (but can read basic tab). In augmenting basic tab you're just adding things that look the same as notation anyway, so why not just use notation? Those interested enough in "augmented tab" will find what they need in notation.
Musical notation tells anyone who can read it what the listener should hear if the music is to be played as the composer intended. Tab doesn't. It's a set of fingering and string instructions for players of fretted stringed instruments.
If you're a beginner and you've started playing guitar without taking lessons or learning any music theory (and lots of us started like that) then it's a fine way of learning new material if you also can listen to a recording as you learn it. The recording shows you how it sounds and the tab tells you where to put your fingers and what strings to hit. The result is you learn how to play something and that's great - isn't it?
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Rocker, do you have lots of tabs in .txt format? You should get Guitar Pro 7. I bought my copy in April 2017 and it was worth it. I had been using a free version for a couple of years called Guitar Pro Lite, but it wasn't that good, and also a programme called Muse Score. Guitar Pro is very slick looking and I would recommend it.
For me, I struggle with the idea that notation is the pinnacle of written musical interfaces anymore than any particular spoken language is the perfect means of communication. When I'm learning something, the primary information I need is which string, which fret. Notation doesn't tell me that directly. It tells me which note to play, so my brain now has to perform several functions on the fly - which note does that blob on the paper represent, then which string & fret combinations provide that note, before I can play it. I don't need to know what the note is called - that information is superfluous to me - I just need to know where on the fretboard I can play it. Tab gives me that information more directly - although I will concede that standard tab doesn't provide rhythm or duration data.
There must be a better way to convey musical note sequences to musicians than the ancient and unchanged method of notation.
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In proper notation, a number in a circle is a string number. A roman numeral is a fret number. A small bold digit next to a note head suggests a fretting hand finger. p i m a tell you which plucking hand digits to use.
There's no good reason apart from laziness and mental incompetence for people who call themselves musicians to not be able to read or write the standard language of music. Try holding down your day job without being able to read or write English. The reason you can read/write English is because you've done it every day since you were 6. If you read music in similar manner it would be second nature.
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