music notation

[Peter Squire]

What say you?

What kind of music notation do you use/know?

[Aaron Saunders]

Notation all the way. IMO, there's a lot of things wrong with tab, but one of the worst (aside from the lack of indicated rhythms) is the fact that you're going by someone else's fingerings -- someone who might not know the fingerboard as well as you do, and might have a tab that might be the right NOTES, but there's no way in hell the original bassline was actually played like that.

[Kelly Coyle]

What about the Nashville number system?

[cecile]

notation

[Jazzin']

Notes with chords written on top (or sometimes N.C. )

[AaronS]

Both standard notation and tab have advantages. For bass and guitar, I generally prefer standard notation. There is almost nothing written in standard notation that is useful for steel guitar and dobro, so I use tab there.

[Vorago]

Depends on how much time I have. My guitarist doesn't know any theory, so I often write down his chords in tabs, and transfer it to chords later.

Notation gets the overhand, but Tab does have advantages.

[mattmcnewf]

i'd rather notation for the ryhms i don't care about the notes it's the rythms that i find tricky

[theuzedrk]

I seem to have a tough time learning to read manuscript, but I'm getting there slowly. So with a little help from tab I can learn it easier. I'm trying to get away from tab though. Unless I want to learn a song by a band I like then I have to go for tab, because most of the bands I listen to it is impossible to find manuscript for them. For the life of me I can't pick songs out by ear, although occasionally I do run into the right notes at the right place.