Abstract. A music teacher is considered as a necessary component of professional pedagogical culture, a necessary condition for preparing a music teacher for professional and pedagogical activities. Pedagogical creativity is effective if it is based on high professional and pedagogical competence. The effectiveness of a music teacher depends on his professional skills. We believe that professional competence is a multifactorial phenomenon. Not only special basic scientific and methodological knowledge, abilities and skills, but also professional ones, but also work with people depend on the general culture of the teacher, his value orientations, the content of his activities and his ideas about himself as a specialist includes abilities.