Bad Snacks demonstrates how to build a breakdown in Ableton Live by stripping a section down to just the chords, then layering elements back in from there. The approach treats the breakdown as a reset point rather than a continuation, using a locator to mark the section and starting from the simplest possible version of the material.
This is also a moment to introduce chord variation. Instead of repeating the same two chords throughout the whole track, the breakdown is a natural place to play them rhythmically or harmonically differently, mixing and matching to shift the energy without rewriting the song.