Contemporary or open approach has enabled teachers to become the creators of a quality teaching process in music culture which will awaken students with the desire to master music, convey the content and information they will use further in life and, above all, prove to them that in each of them there is musicality and desire for musical advancement. The central activity of open access is listening to and learning music which evolves the musical tastes and the critical attitude towards music in students. Other areas of music teaching are variable. This paper is written with the intent to analyze the approaches in the music teaching, and to find out whether they are contemporary. The aim of the paper was to determine how much the field of music teaching is performing well and whether it is corresponding with the features of an open, contemporary learning model. The research was conducted in two counties: Virovitica - Podravina and Istria County. It was conducted in eight elementary schools, and the respondents were the teachers of the classroom, 68 of them. In the research a survey was used which consists of nine questions, of which the fifth question contains five statements, and the seventh question contains eight statements, which respondents answered using Likart's scale. Survey questions relate to the method of teaching music contents, the competences of respondents for the high quality and contemporary implementation of music teaching, the choice of activities for teaching music. The results were obtained by the method of analysis and synthesis. The obtained results confirm that teachers of elementary school teaching are highly skilled in teaching music, they try to make it interesting and contemporary, regardless of whether they are competent or not. However, as with all teaching subjects, in music always remains a space for further advancement and thus for improving the quality of teaching.