There should be no confusion about TAB.
These graphics should make the understanding self-evident.
So...the six lines represent the strings of a guitar, and unless otherwise states in standard tuning. E A D G B E Like this. The numbers represent the fret.
The above example represents a well-known melody. To use TAB if you do not know what the song is supposed to sound like would require you to listen to the song. That fact would be expected for using TAB.
The reason you need to listen to the song is there is no rhythm information in TAB.
By knowing the notes on a guitar neck, a Trumpet player could play the single notes.
Also, the standard notation of the diagram will not inform the guitar player where to play the notes because there is more than one place to produce the same note on a guitar.
Chords can also be represented in TAB. Like this.
So...as you can see, this is not rocket science.
In professional recording studios, several methods of communicating information to session players are common. Standard notation, Nashville notation in several forms, TAB, verbal information like "this is like the bridge in XYZ" and someone plays the part on the same instrument or another instrument to demonstrate.
So...if you call it a 1000 or ten to the third it is still a 1000. No big deal but ten to the ninth is a pain in the butt number to write being 1000000000. We describe things differently for convenience and simplicity.
The open low E string on the guitar is E2 on the piano.
It never ceases to amaze me the amount of resistance to learning new information.
Why is it that the USA and Bangladesh are the only two countries not using the metric system?
If a system of communicating information is useful to you, then it is logical to learn it. If you don't have any use for the system then don't learn it. What's the big deal?
Billy
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