[rikkus]

I'm happy with standard notation when playing the piano or something that can only play one note at a time (e.g. trumpet), but I still can't get my brain to read it fast enough when playing the guitar.

I know tab notation exists to help with this, but it loses much of the detail encoded in standard notation - note lengths being the most obvious example. There have been attempts to create a hybrid notation and there are books with tab printed below the stave(s), but neither work well.

If anyone's found any alternative notations that work well for guitar, I'd love to see them.

[taejo]

I've played from books that had tabs with note stems, beams and flags attached to the numbers with the same meaning as in standard notation (this can't distinguish between a filled and unfilled note-head, but in guitar music one rarely needs to notate anything longer than a crotchet/quarter-note so it's not really an issue). I never really learned standard notation, but I do know some of the basics and found it useful.