Many people think that Tablature on the guitar is a remarkable, new way of learning to read and understand guitar. Few are aware that Tab, as it is most frequently referred to is in reality an archaic, ancient way of marking down how to play various guitar pieces. In fact... tab was eliminated as a system several hundred years ago in preference of real music notation after guitarists had suffered centuries of prejudice, and rejection from the rest of the music world (who all read regular notation).
Because guitarists were considered ill-equipped and dysfunctional to play with others something had to give eventually. This big problem in the world of guitarists was finally eliminated when guitarists became literate, studying regular notation, and creating a normal system that complied with that of all the other instrumentalists. It was only then that the guitar became accepted, and really usable in the music world.
