I hate tab with a passion. It was started as a fingering position guide in the 1600's. Its was never ment for sight reading.
Now adays I run into so many guitarists who claim to be better than me, some big fast mirror image Eddie Van Halen guy. Cant read a note of music, and usually doesnt possess any speed or ear training experience either. Sorry, getting off topic. Can you tell I hate tab?
No offence to anyone who can only read tab.
Its just not my thing. Its like painting by numbers, with no paint. I always say, if your gonna do something, do it right, and being ably to read music and play a musical instrument is a no brainer. For some reason, its guitars, basses and drums that seem to be the instruments that these people play.
I'm one of the only people I know of at my school that can read and talks theory at the level I do. Sure, a lot can read too. But then again, a lot of them read tab.
Anyway, sorry if I offended anyone who likes tab a lot. Its just not my thing. I read off a staff.