- End it abruptly/suddenly
- Song loops and adds fade-out
- "Instruments/elements" were descended sequentially
or other?? (comment)

I did them various depending on the mood, making songs... But I like the third choice just because.

What is ur fav

my favorite way, but that only works when doing an album or EP or anything, is to let it flow naturally into the next song

used to do fade outs, but nowadays i try to end it with a finishing sequence or so!

slow down tempo and cadence into a final thick chord

I like to build up to the ending and finish a track with the ultimate crash and final notes! I normally do this in minor and major battles, but if I am in a rush to submit, a minimal ending with a crash/fade-out is made (and in rare occasions, an abrupt ending).

Whatever seems to make sense with the song. Is it intended to loop, like a bgm track? If so, then a fade out works. Is it meant to be a single musical statement that doesn’t loop? If so, then some other ending technique.

I’ve always wondered why fade outs get called out, I’m not sure if people generally consider those endings less desirable for some reason. It seems to imply to me that listeners can read them as a cop out, but I might be misreading that. for me they work

Yes, I don't mind fade outs on tracks that are meant to loop, like vgm-style, but I tend to dislike them otherwise since they feel unsatisfying.

My lazy method to end a track, which is a bit of a habit I'm trying to break, is to end on some kind of sound effect with a filter sweep or a pitch slide going up or down.

made a big chunk of my answer here first; no song end! the file may fade out but the jam can last forever

really the fade out by far is my fav bc it's as close as I can get, in .wav, or .mp3, to have the person hearing the music decide when the song ends. the only song that needs a definite end imo is a concept piece, and hell; Rush's By-Tor and the Snow Dog has its most conclusive part at like 4m30s of 8m40s! then the piece breathes for two whole minutes, jams slow for one minute, and we're back at 7m30s. riff, riff, drum finale, and it all feels right to me

if there's ever a "big rock finish" it absolutely must be earned and I'll probs only go that route if there's no other way. I really don't wanna do any stadium rock moves unless I have to! sometimes a song demands smth and I just have to write the song at all costs. then there's the fade out and fade back in and then have the song fall apart thing that was like everywhere in the 90s and I just don't think anyone has the time for that now and even then it was like come on

while I'm there; Limp Bizkit's Clunk has a really cool structure! 2m40s on out; song just modulates, somewhere else, and jams out mellow on the bass while a spoken word kinda deal goes from there all the way to the end. and Pete Rock & CL Smooth lots of the time had like a few seconds of a short track going into another track which was the actual titled song. if there has to be like a start or an end to a song I wanna do it more that way. but the vgm style song loop fade out is my fav

Nearly all my stuff is endless loops so a fadout after 2nd loop is the normal way I do things. Few tracks actually are not looped and those have whatever ending that happens to happen in them lol

fade out womp womp

Big Chord Stack and also Cut Away To One Instrument are a couple of my favs

make it sound like your player crashes before it ends

Pull away some layers to a sparser rhythmic backing, loop that for a bit, then abruptly stop.

bam da dam da da da

bbbeeeeeeeuuuuuuuuu

remove instruments until i find it's fine to end the song with that number of instruments

repeat some notes over and over again and then stop. maybe throw in a filter sweep or delay effect with high feedback

cut to just the drum loop and fade out

I'll be very unoriginal, but the big, fat, almost infinite tension-generating Tchaikovskiesque fanfareous ending is still my favorite.

We need more Hey Jude style long outros on battle of the bits

Ju-jude, a-judy juday Juday Judy JUDAYYYY

hit 'em with a random leitmotif in the song

summer chip xv results stream chat would have reccomended not to do fadeout

my go-to is gradually stripping away instruments until only the core parts are left, though sometimes i'll end with a modified version of the intro (and sometimes i do both)

as i try to improve on the variety of my works, i'll probably explore other ways of ending a song

fade-outs get too much flack imo! when used right, they can add a lot of intrigue to a song, like ending a movie with an ambigious ending, letting the viewer piece together what happened with what the pieces theyve been given so far.

sometimes i slap a fade-out on whats meant to just be a VGM loop, but for stuff that isnt meant to loop its a lot more deliberate, where i feel like a definitive ending would sound too... well, definitive. some songs just arent meant to end like that, and the fade-out gives them just that little bit more lasting power to keep playing, forever and ever

honestly it depends on the song. usually I have a chorus repeat before a kinda final hit, but it's different depending on how I feel. Lotta my xhb entries end abruptly or loop though

end on a weird non diatonic chord

hard cut at the end of a measure and start the next track on the next beat. gapless ftw

however outside of the context of an album (like here) i would say probably a final note at the beginning of the last measure with an echo/delay out

fade

the old fade out trick when I don't know how to end my track.......

stop writing when I run out of ideas

another section

just frickin. stop

Swearing profanity at the listener, while Yoda dies.mp3 plays in the background.