Tabs and sheet music versus ear and feel

[metropolis_4]

There are so many things humans have invented to save time, and tabs are one of them. They're simply a way of notating how music is played, but only for guitar. I see nothing wrong with not being able to read standard notation, as long as tabs exist.

I see nothing wrong with it either as long as it's not hindering what you want to accomplish as a musician. I am glad I can read SN though because the ability to do so is required for the type of work I most love to do as a musician. I wouldn't be able to do what I love today without the ability to read SN.

Tab is really just a different language, and it only really saves time if you've spent more time learning to read it than learning to read SN. It's sort of like if I were a native Italian speaker and I was trying to read something in Japanese it would be more difficult and I would read much slower. It would save me a lot of time to just read it in Italian. But if I were a native Japanese speaker it would be far easier for me to read it in Japanese.

It's all because of what we've spent our time practicing and learning. I know many musicians who can read SN as effortlessly and simply as if they were reading a childrens book. For them tab would take more time and be more complicated to read.

 

[Eagle]

You need to use your ears and read music, no verses here. Almost as stupid as "bend verses slides".
Here's a classic for you;

How do you stop a guitarist playing?
"Put sheet music in front of him/her."