With the development of society, music education has attracted increasing attention. Music appreciation is an important content in music teaching. Through music appreciation teaching, students can cultivate students' interest in music, develop students' music listening ability, memory and imagination, and more effectively cultivate students' ability to feel beauty, appreciate beauty and create beauty. So how can we improve the teaching quality of appreciation classes so that students can have a strong interest in music appreciation and devote themselves wholeheartedly to music appreciation activities? Here I will talk about some of my own opinions. 1. Guide students to participate in music practice activities. Teaching activities are a two-way activity. The activities should be carried out with teachers as the leader and students as the main body. Therefore, teachers should actively guide students to participate. This is the most critical point. Music appreciation is mainly for students to listen, gain knowledge from listening, and arouse interest. So how can we guide students to listen to music well? I think storytelling and questioning methods can be used to guide students to actively participate. For example, you can use this method when listening to the song "Singing the Second Little Cowherd". Everyone is familiar with the story of Cowherd and Wang No. 2 Primary School. Before listening, the teacher can ask students to recall the story of Wang No. 2 Primary School and ask one or two students to briefly talk about the content of the story to deepen their impression. Then tell the students that the lesson we want to appreciate today is to tell the story of Wang Erxiao in the form of a song. How is it different from the "Singing the Cowherd of Erxiao" we learned before? What are you listening to? At this time, students will concentrate and listen carefully.