Hi Rick and welcome.
You clearly fall mainly into the first category then I would think.
Hi Rick and welcome.
You clearly fall mainly into the first category then I would think.
Actually no, out of all the elements of music (melody, harmony, timbre, texture, tonality, rhythm etc...) melody is the least important. Harmony is far more important to me than melody ever will be.
It's more about the music as a whole, the way it's played, the feeling behind the playing, the feeling behind the composition. All these are far more important than melody.