Well, maybe that will work for Bluegrass, I don't know. With Old- Time, I would never place chords over melody in value. I learn most new tunes at jams, and the tune may end before you ever get all the chords. Better, I think, to IMMEDIATELY try to grab as much of the melody as possible, filling in gaps with each new pass of the tune. At least that way you might have an actual tune to take home instead of a bunch of chords. Ideally, I suppose it would be best to simply listen to the tune a few times, then work on chords if that is important to you, and then the melody, but there usually is not that luxury of time in jams. Also, I often don't care whatsoever what the chords are, unless I'm playing guitar or bass; most of the tunes I try to grab from jams are so danged crooked you'll be lucky to get the melody right. But that is always the goal - to get enough to be able to join in and have fun with the tune before it ends.
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