Abstract: Heuristic teaching is a kind of teaching idea and method which takes students as the center, creating problem situation, creating learning situation and so on as the method, and taking students' independent exploration and thinking as the goal. Heuristic teaching can eliminate the disadvantages of traditional music teaching, stimulate students' interest in learning, and promote students to participate in music classroom teaching effectively. In school music teaching, we should not only use heuristic teaching method in teaching content selection, teaching scheme design, classroom teaching activities, but also use heuristic teaching method in singing teaching, music appreciation teaching, instrumental music performance teaching, etc., so as to realize the full penetration of heuristic teaching into music teaching.

Key words: Heuristic teaching, Music teaching, Problem situation