Song writing tips: Writing a good outro

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In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.Abraham Lincoln, a great quote from a great man. The only thing that matters is not the end, it's the journey, the journey of the entire song from the beginning to the end.

Writing songs require some song writing tips (which i provide here!), every song part (component) requires different songwriting techniques. In today's lesson, we're going to cover some song writing tips to write a good outro.

The outro (as the name refers to) is the last part of the song (the ending), it comes usually after the last chorus. The most common form of the outro is to repeat the previous part and make it fade away gradually at the end.

The outro could take other shapes: like repeating the last chorus line or introducing a new composition, no matter what your intro is, you should have a well balanced energy to give your listeners a pleasing end (like in movies, no one likes bad endings), so take care of your fade away techniques and do not make them neither too long, nor too short.