# Swamp / Heron Patience — take A: the lazy swung jazz-blues (G dorian, behind the beat)

`swamp-heron-v3a` — levels: `calm.mp3` · `activity1.mp3` · `activity2.mp3` · `danger1.mp3` · `danger2.mp3`

Take A — the FAITHFUL reading of the corpus's jazz piece: a lazy, behind-the-beat SWUNG JAZZ-BLUES combo for the fishing biome. G dorian, 72 BPM, lightly swung 4/4; the danger section steps up to 96 BPM. The swing IS the interpretation (§7.7 — no shared motif): everything drags a hair behind the beat (comping on a +1 nudge, off-eighths swung to +3 long-short), humid and in no hurry — the swamp moves slowly and so should you. PIANO is `struckPiano` tone WARM (the re-spin fix; warm is the low-light, mellow voice the humid stillness wants over a bright present attack). Calm is the bed alone — a warm pad floor, lazy struck-piano comping stabs dragging behind the beat, the upright bass on the root with a half-bar lift, a low sub, and SPORADIC PITCHED `bubbleBlip` chord-tone glints (the §3 'sporadic bubbleBlips' rendered as pitched one-shot color, never a continuous water/noise bed). Activity L1 (ch4–5) is the HERON DUET: a behind-the-beat G-dorian BLUES line on the warm piano (with a faint soft echo) ANSWERED by a low counterline 'like a second heron' on muted brass an octave-ish below. Activity L2 (ch6–7) adds genuinely NEW material (not the lead louder): a WALKING upright bass in swung quarter-steps plus brushed-snare/ride swing comping — the band settling into its pocket. DANGER is ENCOUNTER music, abstract not literal: danger1 (ch8–9) is something moving under the water — the tune gone APPREHENSIVE: a dragged, far deepBoom heartbeat that lands on the OFFBEAT (never the downbeat — the wrongness is in the drag) under a darkening drone, and the blues line turned wary and sparse, leaning the held b5. Real unease that stands on its own, not near-silence and not a literal bubble foley. danger2 (ch10–11) is a genuine INTENSITY JUMP — the swing turned FRANTIC, the full ensemble crashing in at the faster 96 BPM: a DRIVING kit (a four-on-the-floor kick + a near low boom and a frantic ride pulse) and an URGENT altered blues lead that hammers the b5/tritone and refuses to resolve. The faster section tempo + the kit make it an escalation, not danger1 with the fader up, and the dread is abstract (no underwater foley). CHROMATIC JAZZ COLOR (named intent — this is the row the v3 mandate invites it): the bed runs a G-dorian blues with a minor ii–V (Am7b5 → D7alt → Gm7, the D7's F# a deliberate chromatic leading tone into i, with altered b9/#5), a IV9 (C9, the dorian major-6 brightness) and a bVII6/9 (F6/9) bluesy turn; the lead leans the BLUE NOTES — the b5 (Db) between 4 and 5 and the b3↔3 (Bb↔B) smear — and the danger lead pushes the b5/tritone harder (a D7b9 bite, an Eb9 tritone-sub pass). Every chromatic tone is functional blues/jazz color, never accidental atmosphere.
