We are a three-guitar (and one organ, one keyboard and one banjo) household. But we don't have a band, and I don't drive a multicolored school bus. All the kids are interested in learning about music, which is fun for me, since I have been playing guitar for a long while.
My teenager is trying hard to teach himself electric guitar by downloading tablature from the internet. Since I have a 12-string Ovation, I generally only play "by the chords" so I can't be much help to him. He wants me to write parts for him in tabs, not notes. I read music; he doesn't. So I don't do tabs. I think he's just too lazy to learn to read music. I could write these parts in "music" in about 10 minutes, but it takes me more like an hour to manage it in tabs. 
Once, as we went around and around in the Tabs Vs. Real Music argument, I tried what I thought was a brilliant parting shot: "I bet Andres Segovia doesn't play by tabs!"
He didn't know who Andres Segovia is.
"Only the Best Guitarist Of All Time," I told him.
He disagreed.
"He is SO better than Jimi Hendrix," I said.
"But what about Jimmy Page?" he countered.
We need to get Nintendo to put some Segovia into Guitar Hero. Maybe that would convince him.
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