The education has presented significant changes in the last years so from the teaching role it is necessary to implement dynamic strategies that are oriented to improve the students' competences, favoring the teaching-learning process. The objective of the study was to promote culture and musical intelligence through Research as a Pedagogical Strategy (IEP) in basic education. With a qualitative methodological design under the participatory action research (IAP) model, the data collection techniques used were the participant observation and the field diary. Regarding the beneficiary population, a stratified random sampling was carried out, using as an inclusion criterion the interest for culture, music and research, the sample consisted of one hundred (100) students with ages between six (6) and twelve (12) years, of all the primary levels of the IED Francisco de Paula Santander located in the Municipality of Magdalena Foundation. The results showed that through the culture and musical intelligence techniques are carried out that reinforce the memory, cognitive tasks for the learning, ways to solve the communicative problems, as well as activities that allow an assimilation of the contents in an efficient way, thanks to the creation of a favorable environment, companionship and cooperation among students.