Code one song. Follow the method. Find the gate.
Use the workbook on paper, or use the guided digital version to move through the same method online. Same seven steps, same order, same rule: start with what you actually noticed instead of forcing a gate onto a song.
Print the workbook
Use the Song Coding Sheet, Gate Study Sheet, Playlist Builder, Transit Tracker and Bodygraph Pattern Log by hand. Slow, physical, and good for deep listening sessions.
Use the guided coder
Click through the same seven steps here. Feeling and evidence narrow the center, the center narrows the circuit, and the circuit narrows the gate list to compare.
Experience → feeling → evidence → center → circuit → gate → build
Nothing is guessed for you. The coder only removes gates that do not belong to the center and circuit you chose, so you compare a short list instead of all 64.
Listen all the way through, then name your reaction in plain words.
Point to the lyric, vocal shift, beat, repetition or silence that carried it.
Locate the kind of energy, then how it behaves: individual, collective or tribal.
Compare the narrowed gates, record why, and save the entry to your private pattern log.
A song can carry more than one gate, and your reading can change with a transit or an emotional wave. That is pattern recognition, not a wrong answer.
Bodygraph pattern log
Entries are saved in this browser only, so nothing is uploaded anywhere. Copy or download them whenever you want a backup or a version you can use somewhere else.
The Public Living Library is being built.
Soon, you will be able to submit the songs you code, explain where you believe they belong, and search community submissions by song, artist, gate, center and circuit.
For now, use the free Guided Gate Coder and save your song entry to your device. Song submissions are not open yet.
The coder narrows the gate. The guide teaches the frequency.
The 82-page reference guide gives every gate its core frequency, distortion, aligned expression and musical clues, with breakdowns of all 64 gates, all 9 centers and the 3 circuits. The separate printable workbook gives you the paper version of this exact seven-step method.