Re: Plans for guitar notation

[Rune Zedeler]

David Raleigh Arnold wrote:

> Wouldn't it be simpler to consider each line of tab to be a staff of a
> single line? 

No.
Problems would include: Positioning of clef, positioning of bar lines 
(repeat dots in particular), and then all those poor users who don't 
agree with you that the tab should contain nothing but numbers.

> I would love to have lines and numbers for 5-string banjo
> music, but bends and stuff like that in the tab make no sense, because
> they belong in the notation, not the tab.  The notation tells what music
> sounds like, the tab is only fingering.

Yes, you have written this before. We all know your preferences.
What I don't understand is why you cannot accept that not all musicians 
agree with you.


-Rune