Music is completed when its external structure is in harmony with its internal anecdotes. With the full understanding of both aspects, music education can be well-balanced. In this vein, the purpose of the study is to improve the quality of performing and develop a performer’s proper attitude by using anecdotes contained in gayageum music for gayageum teaching. The study used the anecdotes of the Kang Tae-Hong’s gayageum sanjo and mainly explored two distinctive instructional elements from the stories, ones related to ‘melodies(music)’ and ‘views on music(attitude)’ so that gayageum teaching can be done corresponding to each content. The teaching plan was designed to guide students to first understand the content of anecdotes before any instrumental lesson and later learn melodies of gayageum music. Instructional plan for ‘music’ includes understanding the anecdotes relevant to a melody, learning the melody, and playing the music in person so that students can learn these three steps in a coherent way. Instruction plan for ‘views on music’ includes understanding the anecdotes of musical views, playing gayageum music while understanding the master’s attitude toward music. This way, students will be able to apply what they have learned from the anecdotes to their performance in a specific manner. While studies on the gayageum sanjo have been conducted continuously, it is relatively rare to find internal research on anecdotes and meanings embedded in the gayageum sanjo. It is expected that studies, which can recognize the originality and diversity of the gayageum sanjo and explore it from a more extensive perspective, will be actively carried out.