Whats wrong with learning to read from tunes?
Nothing is “wrong” with learning to read from tunes, strictly speaking. It’s just painfully slow going (years may pass with only slight improvement) because the pitch range is too wide, and there isn’t enough repetition of the same note in close proximity to itself to reinforce visual memory. It’s like deciphering the note every time you see it instead of cultivating a physical reflex to produce the note at sight. More about the hitches in the fiddle tune approach. How does “Standard Notation for the Tab-Addicted Mandolinist” help a tab reader deal with standard notation? I would take it that the focus is to give a tab mandolinist a chance to play non-tab stuff like classical, etc. Is there more to it?
