Tips to Improving My Songwriting examines six songwriting tips by Ralph Murphy aimed at improving your basic skills. Then watch https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW0G4pYSe2QuYIOQERD3f6YqV4KXONKDO

Tips to Improving my Songwriting examines the following:

0:00 Tips to Improving my Songwriting
0:46 Structure is a balance of predictability and surprise in songwriting
1:48 Melody and hum-back factor is important to improving your songwrting
2:44 Lyric is crucial to improving your songwriting skills
3:57 Style is your uniqueness and crucial to improving your songwriting
5:28 Master quality is the sound quality of your sons

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8 Replies to “Tips to Improving My Songwriting – Murphy's 5 Laws”

  3. The trick in music is making it as catchy as pop without competing in pop and being jazzy without sounding like your just playing random notes.

    Always remember if it doesn’t sound right you can always add more cowbell in later

  5. Hey, Good Morning Bobby,

    Ralph was a friend and mentor. This is a great video. I just wanted to ad that I sat in many workshops in Nashville and heard what you are talking about when you mentioned being all over the place when writing. One of the best tricks I have learned to stop that from happening is to find your killer opening line and 2nd line ( for the pitch to keep their attention) then write to the chorus keeping your song moving forward. When you get to the chorus, it is like pushing the clutch in. The chorus is the moment that highlights your lyric and does not forward the song.

    Now I go into 2nd verse hell. Meaning I go back to the last line of the 1st verse and pick the story back up and forward the story writing to the 2nd chorus, again pushing the clutch in.

    Now I am at the bridge. I use the bridge to sum up my story if there is anything more to say. If not, I go with a musical bridge then chorus, chorus and outro. Always keeping (as Ralph said) the 10 am mom / listeners in mind.

    Simple structure. Start move forward writing to the chorus, push in the clutch, write from 1st verse last line to 2nd chorus, sum it up and take it home.

    Ron

  6. Great stuff, Bobby! I've long been a Ralph Murphy disciple … he's one of my songwriting Gospels! (I'd be happy to share the others with you sometime). Melody is the most important – if you're writing in genres such as country or AAA. But I'm guessing in rap music, the lyric is most important. Point #5 "There are no demos" has dual meaning when you really think about it. Of course, you want the sonic quality to be on par with what's already out there, but you also want the other four points, that you made, to also be just as good as what's already on the radio!

    Liked and shared.

  7. great video per usual Bobby!!! =) "there are no demos" So true lol I learned that real quick when I shifted my efforts from playing drums in bands to doing songwriting and production.

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