# Magma Forgeheart — Forge Heart (Take C): Hammer & Striker Shuffle (C mixolydian, HEARTH work register, v3)

`magma-forgeheart-v3c` — levels: `calm.mp3` · `activity1.mp3` · `activity2.mp3` · `danger1.mp3` · `danger2.mp3`

Take C re-bones the NOISY/PERCUSSIVE work-song concept as a swung compound 12/8 hammer-and-striker shuffle instead of the obvious square 4/4 backbeat reading: each 16-row bar is four swung beats, every beat a long-short triplet pair (the smith's heavy hammer on the beat, the striker's lighter answer two rows before the next — a 2:1 lope, not a march). The lead instrumentation is the structural swap — the work-song melody is HAMMERED OUT ON ANVILTINK ITSELF (pitched metal-on-metal as the lead voice, dropped into a bright work-mid register), where the obvious reading would sing it on a pluck. HEARTH is stated recognizably, octaveShift(-1) into the work register and re-seated onto the shuffle so its 3-5-6-5-3 rock and 2-1 settle land on swung hammer beats; a low pluck bellows line breathes underneath. Calm (ch0-3) is the forge at rest, bed only: warm brass-like pads, an ember glow-flicker pad, a working sub pulse, and a slow off-beat anvil heartbeat — no melody. Activity L1 (ch4-5) is the anvil work-song plus the low pluck bellows answer — the sturdy line alone over the bed. Activity L2 (ch6-7) ADDS genuinely new material, not volume: the full striker's-crew kit (kick + snareDrum on the shuffle backbeat, ride loping the swung beats) AND a pluck counter a third below the anvil — the noisy/percussive payoff. Danger L1 (ch8-9) is first signs: a rising darkDrone OF THE TONIC (C) as pressure, with chamber-tremor deepBooms beneath, spaced far apart. Danger L2 (ch10-11) is the floor's glow brightening — the kick doubles onto every swung beat and intensified anvil flares + ride wash pile on, peaking in the last danger pattern. Fully diatonic C mixolydian throughout (no chromaticism); the bVII Bb is the mode's own work-song color, the only harmonic pole besides the tonic, and the eruption is pressure-as-rising-tonic-drone plus rhythm and density, never dark harmony.
