# Ocean Sailing v3a — Beneath Sail (take A, faithful full-melodic, G mixolydian)

`ocean-sailing-v3a` — levels: `calm.mp3` · `activity1.mp3` · `activity2.mp3` · `danger1.mp3` · `danger2.mp3`

Take A — the faithful, idiomatic reading of the FULL MELODIC brief: a small ensemble in G major leaning mixolydian, one broad 100 BPM throughout. The calm bed is the becalmed deck — swellPad cresting once per two bars over warmPad chord body, sub on the roots, and waterLap struck against the planks as percussion (no noise bed). The activity branch is the arrangement's whole point: L1 (ch 4–5) is the HORIZON lead stated recognizably from G-4 with a soft echo, the b7 (F natural) keeping the crest hungry rather than triumphant. L2 (ch 6–7) ADDS new material, not volume — a mutedBrass counterline answering a fourth below (a real second instrument, per the brief) plus a soft-pluck comping arp under both — so three distinct voices work together. Danger (ch 8–11) is a storm front / sea-monster wake left ambiguous: L1 is first signs — a deepBoom ground swell on the bar, a slow kick heartbeat between, over a darkDrone pressure pedal that darkens the swell without changing the harmony; L2 is it's here — the pulse doubles and gusting spray one-shots rake the deck while the booms land like waves on the bow. Fully diatonic throughout; the menace is built from density and register, not speed (the clock never changes) and not chromaticism.
