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[quote name='tauzero' post='1057943' date='Dec 13 2010, 10:19 PM']Isn't that how Stockhausen composed?[/quote]

What?
Him out of Stockhausen, Aitken and Waterman?
That explains the late 1980s then

[tauzero]

Dammit, I did mean to add some sort of constructive comment too.

As someone who has every now and again had a half-hearted stab at learning standard notation but never managed it, it strikes me that the subject matter is obviously orientated towards notation as that's the way to explain how the chord tones fit together, but that pragmatism also says that tab would be of use. The biggest weakness of tab is the poor facility to express rhythmic content and a book on chord tones is presumably going to have little rhythmic content, the significant part is the structure of the chords.

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[quote name='tauzero' post='1057959' date='Dec 13 2010, 10:30 PM']Dammit, I did mean to add some sort of constructive comment too.

As someone who has every now and again had a half-hearted stab at learning standard notation but never managed it, it strikes me that the subject matter is obviously orientated towards notation as that's the way to explain how the chord tones fit together, but that pragmatism also says that tab would be of use. The biggest weakness of tab is the poor facility to express rhythmic content and a book on chord tones is presumably going to have little rhythmic content, the significant part is the structure of the chords.[/quote]

Yes.
Bass tabs generally seem to rely on the fact that you 'know' what the tune that you are trying to play is supposed to sound like, whereas standard notation allows a musician to see and play it without ever having heard the tune before.

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[quote name='tauzero' post='1057959' date='Dec 13 2010, 10:30 PM']The biggest weakness of tab is the poor facility to express rhythmic content and a book on chord tones is presumably going to have little rhythmic content, the significant part is the structure of the chords.[/quote]

True-but in a book on chord tones,Tab fails to convey the difference between intervals.By just showing a fret number,it is not possible to convey the difference between say,a #4 and a b5. It will show you a fret to play,but it doesn't show it's context.