My brother Stuart and I were privileged to meet Ralph at the Royal Northern College Of Music in England recently.He is so generous with his time and gives his valued experience freely.I was somewhat starstruck meeting Ralph after last seeing him on Taxi tv last year after golfing with Michael!! Thanks Ralph!!

Ralph is a great guy and of late has advised me personally in areas of my lyric writing which has made my lyrics stronger and more powerful than they ever were...one tip which he has spoken about on here is swapping verse 1 for verse 2 and vice-versa....and wouldn't you just know it....i grabbed 100 pieces of work i had penned recently and every last one was improved by that one tip....UNBELIEVABLE. When i read down through his comment sections, the one thing which comes over to me time and time again are negative comments or questioning comments from folk about writing for "commercial purposes to hit a no.1(or get you in the running)" up against writing for "artistic reasons" and i have a simple answer to solve arguments.....DO BOTH...it's not rocket science. I've co-written songs with folk who have shown fear at the last minute and "pulled", leaving those songs(half my creation) sitting on a shelf. I have 17 with one guy...and many more besides which may never see the light of day....kinda makes me think if i suddenly hit a No.1...will those dudes come running??? Problem is, most of those songs sitting on shelves have NEVER had the "RALPH MURPHY solid commercial advice" shot inside of them...possibly meaning that they would NEVER make a No.1 anyway. If i'm honest(and i try to be), Ralph Murphy generously opened my mind and my eyes...but i'm the only one who could use them both....in the U.K. we'd most probably have KNIGHTED this man by now for "services to commercial creation"....come to think of it..he was actually born in BRITAIN...so if i ever hit that No.1...i think i'll push for that Knighthood for him!!!!!...or just damned well do it anyway for the generous time he has gifted me for actually understanding him, listening to him and not questioning his reasoning regarding changes and adaption of songs which need his advice on them to make them more commercially viable. Regards, Sonic Foxx(SONIC FOXX MUSIC). P.S. If you buy yourself one book this year make it Ralph Murphy's...it's priceless...and simply called MURPHY'S LAWS OF SONGWRITING...

Ralph Murphy is a G

Thankyou Ralph

I love this video session thanks for the knowledge!!!

Is there an ebook version for Ralph Murphy’s book?

Those were some great critiques!

When it comes to composers getting placements, does Taxi have a high chance of getting tracks placed? Are you guys in music supervisors top 5 when it comes to searching for songs ?

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I don't hearing him talking about Hip Hop the number one music Genre in America..Probably the world.

what if I just wanted to submit 1 song to you for critique. would I still need to join?

Do you really need a collection of songwriters to write one song? I remember when Fall Out Boy's Centuries came out, it had like 6-8 songwriters and I'm like, "That's insane." To me, the artist should be the primary songwriter, not a bunch of hired guns.