Singing used to be taught by rote repetition, by "learning a melody line by line just the way it was sung," but Chiang has switched to musical notation, which students find easier to follow. He has even prepared a "Taiwan Opera Handbook" that anyone who went to music class in elementary school can use without a teacher!
如今他還準備印現代化的「歌仔冊」，只要受過國小音樂教育，不必老師教，光看譜就能自唱自娛呢！另外，江清柳還發現，「一定要先教唱腔、再教身段！」