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Subdued Section	comment	So you're listening to a song, and as it hits the last chorus (or sometimes verse) the guitar (and often bass guitar too), will drop out, leaving just the vocals and drumbeat, giving the lyrics a little more weight until the rest of the instruments return. Or something like that. While which instruments drop out varies (and when), generally only one or two accompany the vocals during this section. This trope can even apply in sections where vocal parts are dropped away too, depending on how it's done; the only reason vocals and rhythm instruments seemed to used for this so often is their sheer ubiquity. Regardless of the specifics, this is a technique used to control song pace. It is very common, but that doesn't make it any less effective. Overlaps with many other techniques, and rather often, including Last Chorus Slow-Down (since this section is often at a slower tempo). May be followed by any sort of ending tropes, or may end the song itself. It can just as easily open the song too. Too many of these can make the uncut song less suitable for Rhythm Games. Compare Stop and Go, which is also a lull in the song but one that's more like someone hit the pause button. Try not to overdo it on embedded links.
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Subdued Section / int_160c1407	comment	Instrumental version from Metallica's "To Live is to Die." The song suddenly gets very quiet in the middle, and it's one of the biggest tear jerkers in the band's history, as it (and the whole song) is to memorialize Cliff Burton.
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Subdued Section / int_261c8d3f	comment	Bart Simpson's "Deep Trouble" goes acapella once Bart realizes his parents showed up at the party he was throwing without their knowledge and all of his friends have vanished.
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Subdued Section / int_27e0fc66	comment	"Float On" by Modest Mouse, right at the end of the song.
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Subdued Section / int_2cf6f6a3	comment	"Knights of Cydonia" by Muse
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Subdued Section / int_2dc26796	comment	"Rime Of The Ancient Mariner" by Iron Maiden has the spoken bridge and the start of the following verse. The first part of "Powerslave"'s bridge, before the speedup and solo.
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Subdued Section / int_3d3699a4	comment	"Make Me Lose Control" by Eric Carmen goes a capella near the end.
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Subdued Section / int_46518682	comment	The Sesame Street song "Exit" ends with only the piano and lead vocals, due to the other musicians deciding to leave after the whole audience left.
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Subdued Section / int_503cf9e4	comment	In the video game Rhythm Heaven Fever, the stage "Exhibition Match" consists of one phrase repeated twelve times, each with a Truck Driver's Gear Change, and this trope is the gameplay gimmick behind it: The Player Character is a batter, and you have to press A at the thirteenth beat in the phrase to swing the bat and hit the ball. However, only the first and last phrases are complete: The other ones have instruments cutting out bit by bit, and earlier and earlier, forcing you to count out the beats in your head without complete musical accompaniment. By the tenth one, the music is gone entirely, making it a case of Stop and Go.
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Subdued Section / int_5540bb6c	comment	Machine Head do this during "Davidian" (LET FREEDOM RING WITH THE SHOTGUN BLAST!)
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Subdued Section / int_5b286668	comment	John Mellencamp song "Pink Houses"
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Subdued Section / int_686cfaba	comment	"Don't Stop Believin'" by Journey. Also "Any Way You Want It."
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Subdued Section / int_6b302cc3	comment	Disturbed does this quite a bit: qualifying songs include "Stupify," "Numb," "Want," "Sons of Plunder," "Forgiven," "Pain Redefined," "Perfect Insanity," and "Haunted".
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Subdued Section / int_6fb51f20	comment	Black Gryph0n: "Jester" has two quieter sections close to each other where most of the instrumentation drops out, reflecting Pomni's more subdued mood in the moment.
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Subdued Section / int_746814ae	comment	The full-length version of the Arthur theme song has the chorus with only the vocals and drumbeat at a point near the end. The full instrumentation then returns for a final repetition of the chorus.
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Subdued Section / int_84cc7490	comment	"The South" by The Cadillac Three is mostly a rowdy Southern rock song, but it has a break about 3/4 of the way through that is just Florida Georgia Line, Dierks Bentley, and Eli Young Band lead singer Mike Eli repeating "This is where I was born and this is I will die" a cappella.
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Subdued Section / int_8f422dc7	comment	Several anime themes do this for very short periods of time. "Wild Challenger" does it for one measure. "Give a Reason," two beats.
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Subdued Section / int_93c9c44b	comment	Fountains of Wayne songs "Mexican Wine": The first verse has only a guitar and the first chorus only a keyboard. Then feedback as the singer says "yup" and the full band enters.
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Subdued Section / int_9ad7adc8	comment	"You Better You Bet" (among others) by The Who. Their most famous example is probably "Won't Get Fooled Again," where towards the end everything drops out but the hypnotic synthesized backing track, which is then broken by the most famous Metal Scream ever.
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Subdued Section / int_b611aafc	comment	"Let There Be Rock" by AC/DC Also "Jailbreak," "Soul Stripper," and quite a bit of Bon Scott-era AC/DC... For Angus Young, "Shoot to Thrill."
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Subdued Section / int_b9a59d9	comment	This is played with by Fair to Midland. They often have a verse/chorus contrast in their songs, but obvious examples are "Dance of the Manatee," "Kyla Cries Cologne," "Vice/Versa," "Walls of Jericho," and "A Wolf Descends Upon The Spanish Sahara." Generally, these Subdued Sections are after a heavier portion of the song, and in "Kyla Cries Cologne" and "Wolf Descends" the Subdued Section is a softer iteration of the bridge.
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Subdued Section / int_c43df4d8	comment	"Vale Decem," a track used over the Tenth Doctor's regeneration in Doctor Who, drops the Latin vocals and the instruments to just the Chorus holding a note so that Ten can say "I don't want to go."
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Subdued Section / int_d716d915	comment	Cesare - Il Creatore che ha distrutto — the second song of the piece, Cesare's "I Want" Song, is through-composed, and the second and last sections are like this. In the second, he describes the peaceful, meditative ideal of what the church should be (in contrast with the third section where he describes its reality as a "Babylon of greed and rot") The music gets calmer and much softer, before grinding back to the edgier sound for that third section. In the final section, he says that a rotten fruit must fall and give its seeds back to the ground, which will create a new life, and that perhaps the world is the same. This section is also softer.
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Subdued Section / int_e10df048	comment	Cult of Luna does this a lot as a post-metal band to build atmosphere. "Ghost Trail" for example drops out to repeat the main melody on soft and clean guitars before bursting into a massive breakdown.
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Subdued Section / int_fd6f613d	comment	DragonForce song "EPM"
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