In this article, the authors offer insight into the challenges of helping children with disabilities succeed in music through a collaborative effort of music educators and special educators. Making the curriculum flexible and accommodating a variety of learning styles produces better results and eliminates the need to customize adaptations for specific students with disabilities. By collaborating, special educators and music educators can contribute their individual expertise toward this mutual goal. The outcomes are access, participation, and success in music--for all students. The authors present some articles that focus on two topics that are sometimes forgotten in discussions of helping children with disabilities--the importance of collaboration and special challenges related to inclusion in instrumental music. (Contains 1 figure, 9 notes, 17 online resources and 18 resources.)