Interest is a person’s positive, enthusiastic and affirmative attitude toward things or activities, which creates a psychological tendency to participate, understand and explore. Interest is an important factor in attracting and maintaining attention. People will always take the initiative and happily explore things that interest them, so that the process of activity or recognition is not a burden. Therefore, interest is a huge motivation for learning and the spiritual power for students to take the initiative in learning and research.

The importance of interest in learning has long been recognized by people. Einstein's "love is the best teacher" is a wise saying. In basic music education, cultivating students' interest in music is the primary task and goal of music teaching, which is based on the understanding that as far as the current situation of education is concerned, since music education does not have the external promotion of entrance examinations, students' interest in music becomes The main motivation or even the only motivation for students to learn music. If students have no interest in music learning, music courses may become useless. As far as music teaching is concerned, as the basic education stage of primary and secondary school music teaching, its foundation is mainly not the basic knowledge of music. and basic skills, but music learning interest, or music interest is the foundation of the foundation, because without interest as the foundation, the basic tasks of music teaching, including imparting basic music knowledge and basic skills, will be difficult to complete; in terms of lifelong education Generally speaking, music interest is a prerequisite for students' sustainable development in music, that is, it is the driving force catalyst for students to continuously learn music, enjoy music and develop their own musical abilities during their life journey. School education is only a learning stage in life. For today's students who have entered the era of lifelong learning, mastering learning methods is more important than mastering learning content. "Learning music" means "knowing how to learn music", and it is even more necessary to return the interest in learning to learners. Therefore, returning the initiative in music learning to children, allowing them to change from passive learning to active learning, and from accepting learning to exploratory learning, has become the primary issue in music learning. If this problem is not solved, students will not be able to love music and develop feelings for music. If even a musical interest has not been established in students’ minds through nine years of compulsory education, then we have to say that our music education has failed in a certain sense. If our music lessons cannot make students love it and cannot become what students want from their hearts, then any so-called "music learning" will be meaningless to children.

Basic music education’s focus on cultivating music interests will inevitably bring about innovations and changes in music teaching content, methods, and evaluation. For example, the reformed teaching content over-emphasizes the rigor of the subject system, over-emphasis on classical knowledge, and strengthens the connection between the music teaching content and modern society, technological development, and student life; the reformed teaching process over-emphasizes receptive learning and passive imitation. Advocate students for active participation, communication and cooperation, exploration and discovery and other music learning activities; reform the tendency of teaching evaluation to focus too much on knowledge and emphasize selection, establish an evaluation system that focuses not only on results but more on process, etc. This kind of music teaching reform centered on interest cultivation will undoubtedly reveal a new world of music teaching. Let students always enter the music class with strong interest, let students always maintain a positive attitude and pleasant experience in music learning, and the children will learn to "learn the sea without limit and have fun as the boat", and the music class will become The spiritual home of students, music will truly enter the hearts of children and become a beautiful thing in their souls.