I have no idea how to finish this song and I've been sitting on it and keep coming back to it since 2019

I should just fade it out somehow

I haven't written many songs, and none fully completed, but one that was the most developed I liked the unusual ending I, well, ended up with. Within it, It had a phrase that would build then drop, do a return, then repeat and repeat. I knew I wanted to end it so I began just very slightly altering the phrase's timing each cycle, which to the ear foretold the ending was near. After several cycles, it was so pronounced you just knew it when it was the end.

DDonde · 31-35, M

@DffrntDrmmr Like a slowdown? Or on a different beat?

DffrntDrmmr · M

@DDonde Just before the drop (which led downward to a flurry of notes that led to build again) I held the high note slightly longer, adding a slight more pause each time, but made up for by quicker descending notes making it seem more dramatic each cycle. So while within the phrase the timing was changing the whole phrase remained in beat. I'm finding it hard to explain because it's an ear thing. I just knew I wanted to suggest the end was coming and the increasing drama led to a natural finality.

SW-User

This is gonna sound stupid cause it's already been years but...no need to force it? Let it take another decade, you will eventually have it

DDonde · 31-35, M

@SW-User Maybe!

SW-User

@DDonde NO MAYBEs, PEASANT!

DffrntDrmmr · M

I want to hear the song. 🙂

That's probably why fade outs are so common. A satisfyingly natural ending is preferable, of course.

reubles · 41-45, M

It's what they did in the 80s

DDonde · 31-35, M

@reubles They did do that a lot yeah

Punxi · 26-30, F

Maybe you'll find it when you're no longer searching.

DDonde · 31-35, M

@Punxi Some of the best ideas come up in the background of your mind yeah. Like right before you sleep or when you're walking

Punxi · 26-30, F

@DDonde Deep stuff. Its in your head already. Just gotta make space for it to reach the surface.

Quetzalcoatlus · 46-50, M

How does it go?

DDonde · 31-35, M

@Quetzalcoatlus it kinda goes back and forth between dm7 and B9 at first and then ends up in a different key later and it's just a mess. Sounds good though.

SW-User

Homer finished his paper by writing “Screw Flanders” over and over.

DDonde · 31-35, M

@SW-User The illiad?

SW-User

@DDonde This was the episode where Homer became a food critic and had to write a food review paper with a word count requirement.

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