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Originally Posted by Noodler
Quote from my guitar teacher (a conservatorium trained pianist), when I said he could write a melody down in standard notation if he wanted to since I can read a bit:
"What, dots? Dots don't make sense for guitar. On a keyboard they do, because it's more visual. No, tab makes more sense for guitar" Think about it, a sharp or flat on a keyboard is a black key, a natural is a white key.
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In that case, if your 'conservatorium trained pianist' teacher had wandered along the corridor to the classical guitar department, he would have been very surprised to find not a single tab sheet in sight - just standard notation.
Fact is, until a few centuries ago ALL guitar music was written in tab. When the guitar became recognised as a serious instrument and music written for it became correspondingly more complex, the shortcomings of tab soon became painfully evident and the decision was taken to use standard notation instead.
When the guitar started to become hugely popular in the twentieth century among non-classically trained players, publishers saw a market for TAB as a way of putting out sheet music that could be instantly understood (to an extent), despite its serious weaknesses.
Both systems have their place.