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Kuraudo · Post by **Kuraudo** » Mon Sep 26, 2011 3:28 pm

Can you give me some how-to-techniques and ideas of composing the climax of the song? Say one has worked with the Intro, verse, pre chorus and Chorus and outro of the chorus, what's a way to compose the climax?

I notice that some songs go higher in the final ending chorus (end of song before outro) but I'm not sure how to do this, especially since my main Chorus is already pretty high.

In decent pop songs I've heard, there's a 8-Bar bridge, then outro chorus and then a short outro piece.

I always seem to get stuck at this part and my song gets delayed. The first part of the song is always done in a 1-2 days, but this part can take weeks cuz I'm kinda lost sometimes.

Thanks

DrApostropheX · Post by **DrApostropheX** » Mon Sep 26, 2011 4:17 pm

Assuming you're ending with more than one chorus, you can always try to shift the pitch up a half-tone for the final chorus.

If that doesn't seem to work, and depending on the style of music, you could try a drop chorus (where in the chorus before the final chorus, you drop out everything but the vocal, kick, hi-hat and maybe the acoustic guitar and then bring everything back in for the final chorus).

And as you suggest, you can go the whole chorus, 4-bar (or 8-bar bridge), and then the final chorus. Lots of ways to do it, I would suggest listening to a song that you really like that has the same emotional impact you're going for in your track and map out what the producer of that track did in terms of the arrangement and just copy it

Aloysius · Post by **Aloysius** » Mon Sep 26, 2011 4:53 pm

Been a long time since I made a 'proper' song but one technique that I remember being popular was to add additional percussion for the final chorus.

CODA sections are popular too.

Other than that, I'd suggest letting all hell break loose in the final chorus. By that I mean, any motif you may have added at some other point in the Track (a guitar figure for example) could be played over the final chorus so that the 'story' is told and ends well (with everything coming together in the final chorus).

istyle · Post by **istyle** » Mon Sep 26, 2011 6:21 pm

If you dont wanna compose more then you can use mix trick by mixing the last chorus full on ( with everything going on )and other parts,1st chorus verses got stripped down to thin them out a little bit

Kuraudo · Post by **Kuraudo** » Mon Sep 26, 2011 7:30 pm

All good suggestions. There's also Augmentation and Diminution of notes. Occasionally if your 8-bar bridge is good , then much more doesn't need to be done. Easier said than done. A nice 8-bar bridge is like somewhat composing from scratch..
Fortunately, I just woke up in the middle of the night (Great Scot!) realizing how many scrap ideas were never complete and can fit into this project. Let's hope they work.

Keep the ideas rolling. I don't think I'm the only person with this problem.

Techniques for composing the Climax of the song, final Chorus