If you easily want to know the positions of your fingers on the strings then go TAB.
If you want the 'finer' points of the music then go to STANDARD Notation.
However, there is a happy compromise. Many of the TAB books, like those of Mel Bay Publications, have both TAB and STANDARD Notation. The advantage of the combination is that you can see the timing better with one on top of the other (TAB is at the bottom).
There have been many posting on the benefits of each. The STANDARD guys seem to be the l-o-u-d-e-s-t especially those who play classical music. Many have said that they started with TAB but got more out the pieces when they learned STANDARD.
On the other hand, the music in the
http://www.mandolincafe.com/tabarc.html Mandolin Tablature Archive at this MandolinCafe are in guess what? TAB!
AND, at the
http://www.mandozine.com/music/index.php the Mandozine website are in guess what? TAB!
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