With the deepening of teaching reform, application-oriented talent training mode has become an important way to promote the vocal music teaching reform in colleges and universities. Based on applied talents training mode, how to vocal music teaching reform, how to build a more satisfactory service for students in class, and continuously explore better teaching strategy, constantly explore the optimization of the curriculum, especially at present under the teaching of applied talents training, also need to rely on the concept of vocal music course reform to explore the corresponding teaching reform. Based on the training mode of application-oriented talents, this paper analyzes the reform strategies of vocal music teaching in colleges and universities, hoping to provide references for the optimization of vocal music teaching reform.