Music notation is the one read by the system of dots and other symbols, on the pentagram, the TABs report instead the four pairs of strings on which is marked a number for the key to be pressed. For example for playing the 1st pair of open strings into musical notation a dot will appear in the space between the two lines of the higher stave, in a TAB appears a zero (which indicates the string to be played 'open', without a ginger on the fingerboard), on the highest line .
Many believe that they save time by learning to read the TABs, ignoring musical notation.
I know I'm about to say something unpleasant but the investment of learning to read music is one of the best that we can do and I highly recommend it for, among others, those reasons.
1) It 'a universal language, which applies to every musical instrument, if you show your mandolin TAB to a flute player or a pianist they will ask you what on earth is that piece of paper, if they see a score they will start mumbling the song.
2) Once you learn to read music it can be applied to every instrument, albeit with limitations, the score of your instrument will be in fact identical, to read, to the flutist part.
The same post on the italian blog
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