# Magma Forgeheart v3 — Take A, the faithful work-song (C mixolydian)

`magma-forgeheart-v3a` — levels: `calm.mp3` · `activity1.mp3` · `activity2.mp3` · `danger1.mp3` · `danger2.mp3`

Take A is the faithful, idiomatic noisy/percussive WORK-SONG: a full drum kit drives it and the percussion is the piece, but every struck sound (anvil, kick, snareDrum, ride, hat) is a one-shot — there is NO looped noise bed, and the design note's 'heat haze' reads through the ember pad's baked glow-flicker rather than a sustained hiss. C mixolydian, 96 BPM, speed 6 in every section: threat is rhythm/register/density and a rising drone OF THE TONIC, never speed or dissonance, and the bVII (Bb) of the work changes C|Bb / F|C is load-bearing mixolydian color, not chromaticism. Carries the HEARTH motif octaveShift(-1) into the low-mid work register ('the hearth grown into a forge'). Calm is bed-only: low brass-like warm pads + a working sub pulse + the ember glow-flicker — the forge warm at rest, complete standing-still music. Activity L1 (ch 4–5) is the sturdy HEARTH work-song melody and its soft echo with anvilTink accents struck OFF the beat — one clear work-song voice over the bed. Activity L2 (ch 6–7) adds NEW material, not volume: the full drum-kit groove arrives — a four-on-the-floor kick with a snareDrum backbeat on one channel, ride shimmer plus a low pluck COUNTER-MELODY answering the round a third/fifth below on the other — so L2 is the kit and the counterline showing up (the noisy/percussive payoff), not L1 turned up. Danger L1 (ch 8–9) is the chamber tremor: distant deepBooms under a slowly swelling pressure drone of the tonic C, the kick just beginning. Danger L2 (ch 10–11) is the floor's glow brightening: the kick DOUBLES into an urgent pulse, the booms land closer and the pressure swells — escalation purely by density and register, fully diatonic mixolydian throughout.
