# Beach Greystrand v3b — the somber house mix (elegy home, BOLD)

`beach-greystrand-v3b` — levels: `calm.mp3` · `activity1.mp3` · `activity2.mp3` · `danger1.mp3` · `danger2.mp3`

Take B is the BOLDER second reading of Grey Strand (v3a is the faithful ambient one). Same concept + corrections, a genuinely distinct arrangement: it commits HARD to the word 'house' in 'somber house'. Where a faithful take leaves the bed as free-floating bowedPad swells, this one gives the calm bed a slow HALF-TIME HOUSE PULSE — a soft house sub on the downbeat under a muffled felt-kick 'heart' on the and-of-two — so even standing still there is a body to the music, a heartbeat under a grey sky. A aeolian, clean (no raised/flattened color tones), 76 BPM for calm + activity; the danger section pushes to 92 BPM. The struckPiano (tone WARM — intimate, mellow, the long-walk voice; warm fits this melancholy over bright) is promoted from 'welcome doubling' to a CO-LEAD: it tolls the §7.6 ELEGY reference statement (falls 5-4-3, reaches back up, trails off 3-2-1) in warm octaves. Activity L1 (ch4-5) = the piano elegy statement + a soft-pluck echo. Activity L2 (ch6-7) ADDS new material, not volume: a falling soft-pluck LET-GO counter-line (the elegy's 3-2-1 tail stated a phrase later and lower, the decrescendo answering itself) AND a sparse soft-pad arpeggio of the chord — the line harmonized and the space filled. Danger L1 (ch8-9) = unease/the approach at the faster 92 BPM: the house heartbeat tightens to a steady low kick pulse (the player's somber-house music destabilized) under a darkDrone pedal beating against the bed's A, with distant deepBoom thunder spaced wide — real material, the storm felt before it's seen, NOT near-silence. Danger L2 (ch10-11) = active fight/flee, a GENUINE intensity jump: the full KIT crashes in — a driving snareDrum backbeat on beats 2/4, a galloping doubled kick on the offbeats, and urgent shaker + hatTick 'rain spatter' rolls, with the booms landing on the bar. New rhythmic instruments + higher density, NOT danger1 with the fader up. Correction 3: the v2 take's per-bar wind 'tide gust' (a looped band-passed-noise patch) is GONE — there is no wind/surf material at all; the strand's pulse is pitched + struck percussion (a felt kick heart, never a wave wash). Noise only as one-shot drums. Dread is abstract throughout — density, register, the faster pulse, the kit arriving — never chromatic darkening and never a literal storm/thunder/rain foley (that belongs to the game's SFX + ambient soundscape). Fully diatonic A aeolian, the elegy's clean smooth-worn melancholy.
