Sentence examples for often strummed from inspiring English sources
The recordings revolved around Mr. Mangum's voice and acoustic guitar, often strummed with the unswerving drive of punk, and sometimes joined by sparse circus-band horns, woozy keyboards or full band.
Bossa nova rhythm and harmony are implicit in much of Mr. Horta's playing, but not bossa nova's frugal guitar technique: he often strummed all six strings, leaving one or two unfretted, wresting complex harmonies and letting the low strings ring out.
Robert Earl Keen and Lyle Lovett, who often strummed their guitars on the porch of their Northgate home, have become popular country singers.
His band used a vintage, gospel-rooted lineup including both organ and (electric) piano, with Mr. Stone often strumming an acoustic guitar.
She sings in a plaintive deadpan, and often strums chords that sound like the Carter Family's autoharp, while Mr. Rawlings's light-fingered leads hint at bluegrass mandolin.
Beginning guitar players often "over-strum," focusing too much on doing the pattern they learned and too little on the tempo, the clarity of the chord, and playing the song.
There was no finger picking at this show, but his plectrum style mixed melody lines with rapid-fire and often delicate strumming.
With a bushy beard and yarmulke always in place, he's often found strumming a guitar and singing songs of peace, love and harmony to dreamy-eyed members of the flower-power generation.
They map out arrangements but leave room within them to egg each other on, often revving toward peaks of fiercely strummed tremolo.
In Huang Ruo's "Written on the Wind," the pipa player Min Xiao-Fen moved around her instrument virtuosically, bending strings to create graceful lines and executing brisk chordal slides while strumming vigorously, often while singing an involved, appealing melody with text in a made-up language.
It ends with a slight coda including a strummed ukulele by Harrison (an instrument he was known to have played often) and the voice of John Lennon played backwards.
