It might take me a couple of seconds to name them as notes, but I can see where they are instantly. Of course, my 'home notes', the ones, threes and fives, are blinding me with their presence. Not so much a minor as a major with a three that bends up from the minor. Again, as with all notes in the context of the key, I can see them there. I'll say again that melodies, lead lines, licks, riffs, whatever you want to call them, are little excursions away from and back to home.
Home is comfortable and safe and friendly.
It's the one three five of the chord of the moment. The notes that link home notes are, naturally, scale notes. Scale notes themselves, at least those that are a wholetone away from each other, can be linked by the in between notes. Never forget that the chromatic scale, all notes, underlies it all. The others fit between.