This paper aims at analyzing specific features of social competence of future music teachers and the development of specialized techniques in order to improve the quality of motivational and cognitive components of student social competence. The sample involved 660 undergraduate students. The authors used a number of research methods, such as pedagogical experiment, discussion, testing and monitoring, which provided the possibility to monitor the degree of social responsibility and the development of social competence in the future music teachers. The study specified three levels of social competence development, along with analyzing the conditions of implementing social competence of students engaged in creative specialties in a holistic teaching and learning process in higher educational institutions. The results of the experiment showed that in order to prevent social immaturity of future music teachers, along with improving their social skills such as constructive behaviour in a conflict situation, the ability to defend personal viewpoint, independent thinking and decision-making, one needs to involve students in active interaction with the social environment outside the psycho-emotional comfort area. The analysis of the control stage data indicate that the developed method has improved the ability to analyze and to use the mechanisms of social interaction in a social group at the micro, meso and macro levels, and provided practical skills of decision-making under modern creative environment.