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Added clarification about the type of acoustic ensemble.
Brian THOMAS
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How would you live perform a piece whose recording has a faded ending?

Much recorded pop music has endings that fade to silence. If a live all-acoustic band is trying to perform such pieces, it's not really feasible to do a fade. So what other techniques are available to performers and arrangers to end a piece without a fade but in a satisfying way that doesn't jar?

Note - for clarification, the ensemble I work with is an amateur UK brass band. No microphones, no amplification, no vocals.

Brian THOMAS
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