Basic music skills are the various skills necessary to complete musical activities such as singing, listening, moving, and playing in singing, music appreciation, music accompaniment activities, and rhythmic music. For example, singing requires correct posture, breathing, vocalization, chanting, enunciation and other skills. It requires accurate pitch, correct rhythm, pleasant voice, clear enunciation, and the use of singing to express the content and emotions of the song. Music appreciation requires skills such as auditory perception, auditory discrimination, auditory representation, and auditory memory, and the ability to understand and feel the content, emotion, and artistic beauty of musical works.

Activities accompanied by music require the skills of timing, coordination, and grace, as well as the skills of perceiving and memorizing music, and being able to use movements to express musical emotions. Rhythm music activities require the skills to use instruments correctly, play them in time and beautifully, and be able to play in unison, ensemble, and accompaniment.