Sentence examples for string at a time from inspiring English sources

More than one guitar string at a time?

For now, they are doing what they were designed to do: plucking a string at a time, the hard way.

At first, the playing may seem familiar enough, as in the opening Allemande of the D minor Partita, where Telmanyi uses his bow at a high tension, enabling him to play one string at a time as usual.

Abbas took up the bass because "if you can't play an instrument you always end up playing bass as you only need to play one string at a time".

Mr. Gambale is noted in guitar circles for his technique called sweep picking — playing fast passagework while strumming across the guitar strings instead of stopping to pick one string at a time — and he had plenty of speed at his disposal.

In other words, the elongated strings are perceived only once they are filled with attention, and this occurs for only one string at a time (Avrahami, 1999; Houtkamp & Roelfsema, 2010).

On songs like "Who Do You Love," his guitar style — bright chicken-scratch rhythm patterns on a few strings at a time — was an extension of his early violin playing, he said.

Glancing over his shoulder at the guitarist John Fahey's Christmas album, "The New Possibility," Sean Smith offers spare solo-guitar versions of public-domain carols, often playing slowly and using just one or two strings at a time for melody and drone while his six-string guitar resonates.

By stringing the shells themselves in various configurations, the team identified six possible ways that the beads could have been worn, including tying a knot around each shell, stringing them in a continuous row, braiding them with two strings at a time, and reversing the orientations of the shells to each other.

According to Brindel, "All you have to do is tie the strings together and knit four strings at a time into a big square, fold it up, sew the sides, and put a handle on it!" Maybe that's easy for someone who has been knitting for the past 60 years.

McCartney singled out "Blackbird" as a personal favourite and described his technique for the guitar part in the following way: "I got my own little sort of cheating way of [fingerpicking]... I'm actually sort of pulling two strings at a time .