# Beach Driftwood v3a — Driftwood Afternoon (faithful: sunny calypso house)

`beach-driftwood-v3a` — levels: `calm.mp3` · `activity1.mp3` · `activity2.mp3` · `danger1.mp3` · `danger2.mp3`

Take A is the FAITHFUL, polished reading of the row: a sunny house with a light backbeat — a calypso pluck over warm C-major pads, HEARTH motif. The HEARTH round (the 3-5-6-5-3 rock, the 2-1 settle) is brighter here and skipping/syncopated the calypso way, with the settle to the tonic DELAYED past the downbeat by the offbeat comping that surrounds it — '§7.2: leisure, warmth with sand in it'. The piano is struckPiano tone BRIGHT (the sunny mood wants the present, articulate voice for the offbeat comping stabs; warm would dull the calypso glint) — never feltPiano. THE BED IS RE-IMAGINED PITCHED: there is NO waterLap/surf (the surf was this biome's old identity, retired); the calm bed is pad I-IV-V swells + a soft sub on the roots + a light DRY shaker pulse on the off-beats — sway with sand in it, not a wave. No noise bed anywhere; the only noise is struck percussion (shaker/hat/kick/snare one-shots). Activity L1 (ch4-5) is the calypso pluck melody + its soft-pluck echo a beat behind. Activity L2 (ch6-7) ADDS NEW material, not volume: the offbeat piano comping 'chunk' on the &-of-each-beat (the calypso/ska signature) AND a warm-pad counter-voice a third/sixth below the melody — the band fills in around the tune. Danger re-imagines the riptide ABSTRACTLY, not as water: danger1 (ch8-9) is the sunny groove gone apprehensive — a slow kick pull-pulse + a darkening C/G drone with a sparse far boom (the tide turning while you're out on the flats; real material, not near-silence). Danger2 (ch10-11) is a GENUINE intensity jump for active flee: the kit crashes in — a driving doubled-kick run, a snare backbeat on 2 & 4, and an urgent shaker + hat motion. It is new rhythmic material and higher density (the riptide as RHYTHM/countdown), NOT danger1 with the fader up, and NOT a foley of water. Fully diatonic C major throughout — no chromaticism.
