Wouldn't it just seem how you think of it? Some just play it, others want to analyse/codify it? I can see how one can conceptualise things into a consistent system. Very useful way of organizing sound.
But that is a way of thinking/organizing it, not of how it necessarily sounds. Even though I have fun, sometimes, organising things in a certain box, that's the way I organize elements of music and not necessarily what really happens, looked at from another angle.
Not to convolute things, I am playing the devil's advocate, not disregarding this way of sound conceptualizing. Like I noted, killer results.