I realized a long time ago I was a lifer, and when you realize that there is nothing that is too difficult or frustrating - you just do whatever is necessary. Just trying to do it for a year or two will not be enough to make it worth while. It's something you either start now and do for the rest of your life, or you may as well not waste any time on it at all. If you are not 100% dedicated to it, it will never happen. The decision is not a hard one - if you are completely dedicated to mastering guitar and being a high level musician, standard notation is required, and you will do whatever you need to in order to learn it. And I'm talking solo guitar arrangements. I read standard notation faster than TAB now, and it's not uncommon for me to purchase sheet music to a very advanced guitar piece, and have it almost playable within 30 mins or less.
But what happens is after spending many years learning notation, the notation becomes vastly superior to TAB in every way. The problem with notation is it takes years to get good enough at it that it works better than just TAB + your ears. Using a combination of TAB & your ear is much faster in the beginning, than standard notation. This will never be time wasted, because rhythm is arguably the most important element in jazz and also the least discussed. Counting is the ticket you should be able to count any and every rhythm you play, as in "one and two and three and four," "one and ah two and ah," and "one ee and da" etc. Learn to read those rhythms cold, so there's no guessing at all. Get a book or two that focuses on reading rhythmic figures, such as Louis Bellson's books, Wm Leaviit's Melodic Rhythms for Guitar, or Gary Hess's Encyclodedia of Reading Rhythms. Get some legit fakebooks such as the Chuck Sher New Real Books, Hal Leonard Real Books, or Warner Brothers Jazz fakebooks and start reading and learning the melodies and chord changes to standards. I don't know the one you are referencing but it might do the trick as well. Practice reading out of a comprehensive guitar method such as the Wm. I'd advise three things to start doing right away. Guitar players have been at a musical disadvantage compared to other instrumentalists for way too long. If you want to play jazz you need to learn standard notation, period, end of story. How long did you take to learn it? How can you do so efficiently? I guess I'm looking for advice/encouragement/arguments for learning standard notation. But I'm at the beginning of this book, and realizing I'm going to have to make a choice between learning standard notation, which is infinitely frustrating, or just going of the tab and missing out on all the theory and musical information conveyed by standard notation which seems so essential for jazz. I really, really want to get good at jazz guitar and haven't been able to stop listening to George benson and Wes Montgomery. I've once again plateaued with the major scale and just picked up "jazz guitar complete edition". But then I started playing over some of my favorite songs and fell in love with improvisation. Up until this past year in college, I definitely plateaued, as I was only able to learn simple rock songs and have to play with memory. When I took formal lessons for a few years at the start, I never practiced the standard notation pieces and my instructor eventually started giving me just tab. So I've been playing guitar since I was 13 and am now 20.
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