The learning of piano professional knowledge is highly mechanical and tedious. Students who want to improve their piano art cultivation must have strong self-learning abilities. At the same time, the generation of self-learning ability can also increase students’ love and learning experience for piano learning, helping them complete more music creations. This article analyzes the significance and current situation of autonomous learning among college students and explores how to transform teacher thinking and create a good classroom atmosphere. Among the ways of learning, strategies include carrying out personality classification teaching based on student characteristics, emphasizing interactive teaching and quickly improving self-learning quality. A preliminary exploration was conducted on the strategies for autonomous music learning among college students from four aspects, based on their learning situation, developing a reasonable self-learning plan, etc.