Standard notation can help build a mental representation of how the music sounds. With some training, one can process the standardised fingering annotations int

Standard notation can help build a mental representation of how the music sounds. With some training, one can process the standardised fingering annotations into physical movement really fast too. Tabs are physical movement instructions. With a lot of training, some people can process this into a limited mental representation of how the music sounds. If you think about it, it's quite analog to the difference between vector and bitmap images.