• Aqarius@lemmy.world
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    29 days ago

    It’s not really used by “a tool”, it’s a customary txt-format notation for guitar. People use it to learn/teach how an existing song is played, it’s not intended to actually notate music.

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      28 days ago

      People use it to learn/teach how an existing song is played, it’s not intended to actually notate music.

      Using something to communicate how to play a song certainly sounds like a form of music notation to me.

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        28 days ago

        Yes, but it generally doesn’t, for example, record length, or rests, or dynamics… It’s not intended to fully describe a piece of music, it’s really more of a diagram of a series of notes, specific to a guitar layout, that instruct you on playing a melody you’re presumed to already know the sound of.