Playing as opposed to "playing"

[Aagark]

to summarise the thread so far:

Pretentious douche...
People Angry at pretentious douche...
No one has used the word 'douche' yet...

Now the important things have been summed up; I understand what you meant, but you have your ideas muddled up. You've confused technique and study material with attitude and drive. One of my friends I know can sight read music, nearly as well as me, in fact he taught me. why does he suck now? Because he does nothing but enough sweeping and shredding to look good enough. His ATTITUDE is lazy, but his MATERIAL stands up to any traditional school of learning known... in the woooorld (Reference only the English would get).

The points been made, but I just love hammering nails into coffins, don't you?

Fact is, if you were to study standard notation and tab, you would learn that, as a majority, Tab works better for modern styles (modern is considered in context to musical history, i.e post 1900). Obviously a combination of the two is best, but if you have to choose, Tab.

P.S notation, tab, ear, sight read, chord chart, whatever. *shrugs* Bonbon?