Hi, Jim, good to hear from you again. We’ve had this conversation before, a long time ago, and you sent a sample of your tabs. Yours were better than most tabs one finds in the books I usually get, but they’re not in the books that I’m using now.
I‘m trying to learn new (to me) info, but it’s all on the top line and above. The tabs only tell me where to put my fingers and that’s it. I’m trying to learn about alternating fingers and rhythm and slurs and connected notes and all the other stuff that I need/want to know, and it’s all on the top line.
I’ve really had this complaint ever since I started playing strings. I learned my Irish tunes from music (dots) without any trouble, but my Clawhammer books didn’t have music, so I used the tabs until my ol’ fingernails gave out. So I can and do use tabs, if the music is simple enough and has a lot of chords (my nemesis), but the music that I’m learning now requires more explanation. It does for my ol’ brain at least.