How to Write a Good Piece of Music for Piano

Many people know how to read musical notation, less know how to write music and very few know exactly how exactly to get inspired and compose original, nice music.

Sit down at the piano. You wont get anywhere at all by sitting with a blank page in front of you.
Play around with chords or melodies, if you heard a piece or progression of chords that you liked play them by ear on the piano (or for those who cannot do that, look them up in a book or on the net).
Fiddle around until inspiration strikes (If at first you don’t succeed try, try again. Or if you don’t think that that will work, redefine success!)
Play around with your idea until it totally forms.
Write it down. This may be harder than you think, don’t rush.
Revise it like you would if you were writing an article.
Publish it or whatever you want to do with it.

Use pencil when first writing it
Play your piece for many people before you write it down. Don't distress if you cant come up with anything at first.

Things You'll Need
Yourself
A very good imagination
A piano
Blank sheet music
A sharpened pencil
Patience

How to Write Interesting Songs for Piano

If you search WikiHow, you will find plenty of pages related to the topic "How to write songs" and "How to write songs for piano". However, most of these simply tell you to put aurally pleasing chords and melody lines together, and to write the notes down on a stave. These tell you nothing about how to find your aurally pleasing chords, etc. That is the purpose of this page. (This page can work for any other instrument, but primarliy for the piano.)

First of all, a lot of guides (and for that matter, people) will tell you that in order to compose effectively, you need to have a rough knowledge of theory, i.e. scales, chords, musical notation, etc. This is not always the case. For example, some artist have been composing since they were young, and could not read musical notation until a much later age. As long as you have a good feel for the music, and know what do do with your hands, then the sky's the limit.
you might like not knowing anything about notes and scales, because when you noodle around with a guitar, there are no harmonic boundaries. you are free to experiment. Judge for yourself.

Decide whether you're going to begin with lyrics or begin with piano. most people like to begin with the lyrics because then you feel as if you know what kind of mood you want the music to have. But lots of people work the other way around, so choose yourself.

Think of something that has inspired/angered/elevated you. you might want to write about something that you feel passionately about, otherwise your lyrics will have very little impact.

Watch out for plagarizing, whether it's intentional or not. Plagarizing is probable; it happens to the best of us. However, it's also illegal (as well as being generally frowned upon). So if you find that what you've written sounds very similar to something else, make sure that you hide it well. Change the melody, rhythm, pitch, whatever you want. I wouldn't recommend removing it though. The way I see it, there are only so many notes available, and if you plagarize someone else's combination along the way, so be it. Just make sure that not many people notice.
"Talent borrows, genius steals"

How to Tune a Piano

Are you a piano player or teacher who dislikes the unnecessary expense of hiring a piano tuner and feels that you could do it yourself with a little training? Well this is your lucky day. All you need are the right tools, a piano and patience,

Buy tools. Tuning tools are hard to find, especially if you are accustomed to shopping at local retail locations. eBay is a reliable place for tuning tools.

Choose a tuning lever and try to find one with a star tip as opposed to a square tip. This will give you some extra flexibility.

Set aside a couple of hours. Depending on the out-of-tuneness of your piano, this could take awhile.

Remove every item between you and your tuning pegs.

Block off the outside strings of your starting octave octave: F below middle-C up to E above middle-C-

Notice three strings for each of the keys in that octave. Block off the outside strings of each of those keys with the temperament strip. You will need a flat-head screwdriver to stuff the strip between the strings. F up to E

Tips

a tuning lever (AKA tuning hammer)
A=440 tuning fork
felt temperament strip (preferably tapered)
2 rubber mutes

Warnings

A piano is a fine and delicate instrument that should be tuned about twice a year. There is more to tuning than just following these instructions. It would be advisable to seek the services of a professional piano tuner to make sure that the tone is of good quality and sound.

How to Play Blues Piano Music

It may surprise you but, few pianists know how to successfully execute a simple blues on the piano. Given the hundreds of different chord variations in a 12-bar blues it's no wonder that many don't know which to choose so they simply avoid the whole process altogether.

Here are a few simple rules to follow when learning to play blues on the piano.
Most music that you hear is based on chord progressions and the blues is no different. So let's start with a basic 12-bar blues chord progression which would look like this in the key of F;
| F7 | | | | Bb7 | | F7 | | C7 | Bb7 | F7 | |
Now, I've already mentioned that there are hundreds of different variations of the blues so let's now show you the most common jazz blues progression. Overall it's the same progression with a few extra chords thrown in to make it sound more interesting;
| F7 | Bb7 | F7 | | Bb7 | Bo7 | F7 | A-7b5 D7b9 | G-7 | C7 | F7 | G-7 C7|
You will notice a couple of things about this progression. First is the A-7b5 D7b9 in the 8th bar before the G minor seventh chord. This is simple a minor II V put in front of the G minor chord to give it forward movement. Then you will see another II V at the end which takes us back to the top of the piece, again giving it that forward movement.
This jazz blues progression is the most common progression you will see and will serve you well in any music jam situation.
So, once you've mastered this progression it would be nice to learn how to solo over top. That's where things get a bit tricky. If you're just learning, my advice is to learn a simple blues scale which can be played over the entire progression.
A blues scale is made up of only 6 notes and here it is in the key of F;
F Ab Bb B C Eb and back to F.
Now, the fingering for this scale from bottom to top would be 1 3 4 1 2 4 5. And, of course if you kept going up to the next octave you would need to substitute 5th finger with 1.
This scale works so well on a blues progression it can become a bit monotonous. Therefore, I suggest you learn how to play some other types of scales during the II V's such as a dorian and mixolydian.