Greetings, all. I am new here on these forums. Play the guitar, got a Casio CTK-4000 as a gift and been hooked. Espcially because it has got 100 standard songs installed in the keyboard that it can play and teach me with trough a tutorial function of Phrases. The 100 songs come with a book of their music sheets.

For example Moonlight Sonata, got 13 phrases, you can hear each phrase and see the keys that are being played highlighted on the keyboards little screen. Then it also eventually shows which finger to put on which key so that you do not have to figure that out yourself. You can then practice and get a score at the end of each phrase, the next phrase starts if you've got 90% or higher twice in a row. Alot of more features that makes it great fun to learn and very easy and fast. I now enjoy playing moonlight sonata all by my self with great timing, since I can play along with the keyboard itself when I play the installed song. I enjoy this function so much that I want to install downloaded music sheets or midi files however you call them into the keyboard.

So is something like this possible? I think I can install custom songs trough midi(no idea how or if this is true), but is it also possible that the keyboard recognizes the keys on the keyboard, the pase of the song and does it calculate which fingers to put where?

I'm currently just using music sheets to play my songs but if anyone could help me out with this one, I would be very grateful to enjoy the function of my keyboard even more

I don't know the specifics of your model, but usually this applies to any keyboard: you could connect your keyboard to your pc through midi ports (but you need an iterface for your pc) or usb if your keyboard has it, and play the midi files on your pc. You'd need to instruct the software you use to play midi to send send the signals to the midi interface your keyboard is connected to. This would most certainly light up the keys on your keyboard's display.

Most keyboards also allow you to store midi files on a small internal memory, you could upload those files to the keyboard and play them on it, which would be an ideal solution. You'd have all the controls to play, pause and stop right there and you wouldn't need to use your pc at all. And the keyboard would show you the keys, allow to set you the tempo, etc.

Just mind that not all midi files are suitable for this, since keyboards often just show the notes for a single voice on their display. If melody and accompainment are played on different instruments, it probably wouldn't work the way you'd expect.

I doubt there's some function to integrate midi files into the "teaching mode", most keyboards are just loaded with some tunes and you can't add any more to those.

Ah, I was afraid someones going to say that. Guess the teaching function of my keyboard is only possible for songs that are standardly installed, and not possible to use on custom instals.

Thanks for the response, guess I'll have to stick with music sheet then.

Is there perhaps a pc program that allows me to convert music sheets into something like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I16mgHHoJsk
?

EDIT: Sorry, stupid question. The program itself does that lol. Synthesia sounds like the thing I was looking for.