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>>>....Most musicians who play fretted stringed instruments prefer TAB to standard notation...>>>

This is not true at all. I have been playing all my life and I do not use tab at all. Dozens of musicians of my acquantiance would say the same thing.

Tab is way to limited to be useful to me. It not allow for changing keys or even positions on the neck. It does not allow for playing the same tunes on guitar, banjo fiddle and mandolin, which I frequently do. At bottom, I am just not interested in learning to play the way another might do it. Tab just in not flexible enough.

I too am surprised to read that jazz guitarists use tab. Just does not fit with what I beleive jazz to be.


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