The basic skills needed to play an instrument or sing a song are “Note Reading for Children” and “Timing for Children”. However note reading standard music notation is often difficult for many beginning students, and without being able to read notes, timing is almost impossible. The Animal Note Method of teaching music is based on associative learning. The oval of each note of the Grand Staff is modified to resemble a familiar and friendly animal that is easily recognized. A suggested short story about the location of each Animal Note’s position on the Grand Staff is part of the educational experience. These stories give word clues that when associated with the standard music notes provide a successful transition, thus making learning to read notes much easier and actually fun to learn and to teach. It is our purpose and goal to provide you the teaching materials and useful information for this wonderful new way of introducing music to children, and adults that want to play, but always told you, "I just can't read music." This method allows you to successfully start a child as young as three on the piano and six on the guitar.