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Using something to communicate how to play a song certainly sounds like a form of music notation to me.
Yes, but it generally doesn't, for example, record length, or rests, or dynamics... It's not intended to fully describe a piece of music, it's really more of a diagram of a series of notes, specific to a guitar layout, that instruct you on playing a melody you're presumed to already know the sound of.
ASCII tab
Tablature
Musical notation
If that information is incorrect, please contribute your expertise by editing the entries, because they lead me to believe calling ASCII tablatures notation is acceptable.
Even the article refers to them as notation.
Its not wrong to call tab notation, its just pretty basic and crude