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"strum" Definitions
  1. strum (on) something to play a guitar or similar instrument by moving your fingers up and down across the strings

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The Artiphon's intuitive revamp includes Smart Strum, which allows you to touch a fret with one finger and strum a full chord.
The relationship between Wiles and Strum had deteriorated beyond repair, or as one veteran Republican lobbyist told POLITICO in August it had "been poisoned," which both Strum and Wiles have denied.
Shortly after, Warren Strum, the shop's manager, "jumped to the rescue and and quickly extracted a scared but unharmed kitten," the  auto shop wrote on Facebook , sharing a video of Strum exctracting the critter.
With each strum of the sitar, I visualize my brain waves.
Do great musicians get lucky when they strum the right chords?
Choirs of angelic nano-drones gently strum on celestial harps, on command.
The song reverts to its original unadorned strum, and she wilts, defeated.
It would be nice to be able to strum less badly, soon.
She found Washington-based artist Paula Strum, who specializes in custom corrective helmets.
That's when he realized he could use his toes to strum the chords.
Strum has also lent her abilities to leg braces and other types of helmets.
Sig Sauer; Beretta Holding Group; Strum, Ruger & Co.; and SilencerCo have each contributed $100,000.
Courtesy Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Renoir's women strum no erotic nerves in me.
For hours he would pluck and strum invisible waves, fingers dancing beside the metal rods.
A minute later, grunge-style, tremolo turns to distorted strum and the beat kicks harder.
Then he began to strum, bow, and whistle along to the sound of flowing water.
The gentle guitar strum before Kamasi Washington's mournful sax cues up is the song's comedown.
You could even make the case that Lil Peep's screech-strum dynamics derive from the Pixies.
No one was around #notokay • 40yo guitar teacher teaches me to strum by stroking my leg.
Hear how she alters the texture of a piece called "Strike," with her warped-sounding strum.
As the musicians strum, pick, beat, clap, and sing, her heels break into staccato rhythmic patterns.
Dankner's co-defendant, Itay Strum, was ordered to serve two years in prison, double the original sentence.
The track carries a lovely-but-heavy guitar strum, casting a sonic coat over deceptively good singing.
Dankner and Strum, both of whom denied any wrongdoing, are due to be sentenced on Sept. 20.
AOB and Strum Roger saw five-day gains after the mass shootings in Las Vegas and Orlando.
Mr. Strum told me he approached Target about producing a line of medical equipment a decade ago.
I know their songs, I've lived in Liverpool, and I can strum a few chords on a guitar.
The bald campus landscape was greatly improved under Shirley Strum Kenny, the university's president from 1994 to 203.
A vacation game meant as a portal to sunshine, the ambient strum of ukulele music, and sweet plumeria scents.
Learning to surf is like learning to play the guitar when you can only strum once every 30 seconds.
They stand in a single spot next to a microphone stand, strum a guitar, and croon their greatest hits.
Adam Granduciel sings about dreams, journeys and love over a steady, leisurely strum through two and later three chords.
By simplifying fret board with buttons, you can concentrate on adding some flare to how you strum, and singing along.
She'd sit on her daddy's lap and try to strum her tiny fingers on that guitar forever, if she could.
Today, big music names like Taylor Swift, Jason Mraz, and Zac Brown strum to the tune of a Taylor guitar.
Sitting at tables or castoff blocks of Roman marble, soldiers stare into space as musicians strum lutes or beat tambourines.
As Raghu began to belt out lyrics to VV Brown's "Shark In the Water" and strum her guitar, Perry's jaw dropped.
Some uncanny marionettes dance and strum a guitar, while others that seem hastily globbed together from clay shiver on their strings.
Not to degrade electronic music, but nothing beats the reverberations of a guitar strum, a smooth drum solo, and uninhibited vocals.
With orchestral strings behind the strum, stomp and clap of a traditional-sounding beat, the women aren't singing about cheerful drunks.
Mr. Jaffee told The Globe that he was inspired as a boy by watching Arthur Godfrey strum a ukulele on television.
A crackling sound emerges, as if from static electricity, followed by a single strum from an electric guitar that shatters the silence.
Then, as you strum the rubber bands, you'll also touch the buttons, and it sounds as if you were playing a guitar.
I didn't even know that you use a BANJO PICK when you strum (and it looks like they're not always de rigueur).
Neither Warren Strum nor a spokesperson for Petersburg Animal Care and Control immediately responded to Fox News' request for additional comment on Saturday.
Rather than a plastic toggle switch like Guitar Hero, the Rhythm Guitar has fake strings with velocity sensitivity to strum or finger-pick.
Joey had a guitar and I would put my fingers on random parts of the fret board and strum and I would sing.
Mr. Pearce sat on a leather bench and began to strum, trying out a few plaintive Jeff Buckley riffs, a Bob Dylan song.
But then a Bad Boy named Wes came along and ruined it for all of us with a simple strum of his guitar.
"All Too Well" starts humbly enough, with a quiet guitar strum and mentions of innocent details, like a scarf in her boyfriend's drawer.
Over warm strings and a steady acoustic strum, the Philadelphia native meditates on lucid images of the sheep and devils of his unconscious.
Even though he apologizes often for the repetitiveness (he only knows two songs), I love listening to him strum and pick away for hours.
The other finds him sitting back in a chair, legs spread like he's ready to strum something — obviously, the guitar right next to him!
A snatch of sound—chatter, strings and the strum of a guitar—hints at what cannot be seen through the fogged-up pub window.
That allows them to strum a bass, scratch on a turntable, and tickle a synthesizer…until they get fed up doing what they're told.
Modern minstrels still strum their strings every summer at Jazz à Vienne, the annual festival held in a perfectly intact first-century Roman theater.
They found community with other sailors; nights moored in pristine bays were accompanied by the strum of ukuleles and passed bottles of Jack Daniels.
"It's better to gift late than never to gift at all," says Jacqueline Strum, founder of ThirstyNest, the first wedding registry for wine and spirits.
You can slide your finger across the strip to use it like a pitch bend wheel, or "strum" sounds that are mapped to the pads.
There have also been a few things that have taken almost next to no adjustment at all, such as her ability to strum a guitar.
Manson picked up Stranger in a Strange Land in the same spirit that he learned to strum a guitar and offer exegeses on Beatles lyrics.
Shares for gun-makers American Outdoor Brands (AOB), Strum Roger and Vista Outdoor have all decreased by at least eight percentage points since the shooting.
So this exhibition means to find that string in me, pull it taught and strum it until my whole body vibrates with this held note.
Designed to be played like a regular guitar, you fret on the top part of the neck and strum the strings on the bottom half.
He pulled out a kick drum and a few clap samples and laid down a few basic pieces that we could all strum guitar to.
Think of it as Guitar Hero, but instead of just telling you which strings to strum, it actually trains you to play the real thing.
"Midnight Train" for example, with its simple acoustic strum, room for improvisation, and familiar melody, is a Rawlings original, but sounds just like an old standard.
Day21 Shoot Me: Youth Part 22015We would be remiss not to recognize the five-piece who breathe life into their heartfelt anthems with every guitar strum.
Here's the thing: Yeah, that performance could have been a lot better, but they're not a stand-on-stage-and-strum-a-guitar kind of band.
Former President Bill Clinton froze mid-smile, Jon Bon Jovi in mid-strum, and the Democratic presidential nominee and her top aide Huma Abedin didn't move.
Most promising, Dr. Strum wrote, is daily use of a baby aspirin (81 milligrams) for 10 or more years, which also helps protect against cardiovascular disease.
Pam and Lucas began to strum their guitars and sing; Monica mixed margaritas for the rest of us, then took out her fiddle to join them.
Since babies have to wear the helmets for up to 23 hours a day, Strum has to have a quick turnaround so that kids aren't without them.
Strum suggests gifting the couple a bottle of Champagne for their one-year anniversary or some cocktail tools to recreate their signature wedding cocktails or honeymoon drinks.
" Wine: "I induce people to strum the lute and beat the jug, but you can't get singers and dancers to come perform for a cup of tea.
The plastic rhythmic strum in "Rose Colored Boy" and the wavy keyboard zigzags in "Fake Happy" playfully tease at the chorus before swelling cathartically up into it.
The test currently available, Cologuard, also checks for blood in the stool and may prove to be the most effective of these noninvasive tests, Dr. Strum said.
Instead of watching a colored highway for cues, players are asked to strum in rhythm while experimenting with different finger combinations on the fretboard to create chords.
Kristín Anna has paired off with Bryce, and Gyða with Aaron, slowly parading in a circle, singing in absolutely beautiful voices as the men strum acoustic guitars.
To his everlasting credit, Marv's successor, Chuck Strum, took a flyer on this unknown copy editor and let her become, well into her 40s, a cub reporter.
Will you make it to the top of the music charts, play local shows around your city, or quietly strum away in the corner of your basement?
The Robotic Church includes around 50 "robotic saints" built from 1987 to 2006, which rhythmically bang on drums, play marimba, strum mellow strings, and even paint a picture.
To play, you just press a button and strum the six short strings over the body of the guitar, and the corresponding sounds will play through its speakers.
Going back to watching that one dude strum along to "The Sound of Silence" over and over on the 6 platform is going to be so anticlimactic, huh?
However, colorectal cancer is now rising among people in their 40s, prompting Dr. Strum to suggest a thorough evaluation of any suspicious symptoms among people younger than 50.
LL's yearly presence has proved somewhat soothing amidst the Grammys' yearly strum und drang (occasional stage-crashing and sneak-diss-speechifying aside), but I don't quite know why.
"We have a social worker only three days a week, and her case load is about 80 to 85033 students," said Melissa Strum, a middle school reading teacher.
If you just strum on the guitar at family gatherings and don't aspire to record music or play in a band, you'll be perfectly fine without a metronome.
A moderate with a penchant for whimsy, Mr. Hickenlooper never missed an opportunity to fetch a banjo and strum — even and especially during grueling stretches of his campaign.
She gets furthest from her usual style on "jaguars in the air," which starts with the strum of a guitar but by the end owes more to trap music.
Following an introductory strum of Harrison's beloved sitar, "My Sweet Lord (2000)" features a transcendent, oddly human-sounding chorus of intersecting slide guitar lines, all overdubbed by Harrison himself.
When you strum the strings on the guitar, it'll play the actual notes and chords through the amp, so you can jam out wherever you are — no picks required.
RUDA SLASKA, Poland (Reuters) - Janusz Urbanski has a one of a kind chessboard he never plays, a personalised guitar he does not strum and a boat he cannot sail. Why?
On the opening "Burn Baby", whose constant downward electric strum is the most elementary sort of punk riff, they sound measured, deliberate, straightforward, and ready to take on the world.
The singer in "Cheyenne" could be the mother in "Milkman": acoustic guitars strum furiously and the violin wails, as Lambert observes another woman in a late-night bar, admiring her insouciance.
I feel like this has the sort of like strum of truth to it because I think that being a feminist blogger in Russia is probably a difficult thing to be.
The shelter posted photos and videos of the rescue on Facebook and shared that a Leete Tire employee Warren Strum was able to safely remove the kitten from the parked car.
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Air guitar enthusiasts gathered in the Finnish city of Oulu on Friday to shred and strum their imaginary instruments in pursuit of the world championship of the bizarre dance form.
Strum, for instance, reported that the number of background checks they performed for gun purchases fell 24% in January from a year earlier — and that's after brisk sales leading up to November.
I read online that some rooms also come with a record player and a curated selection of vinyl to spin during your stay, as well as an acoustic guitar to strum along.
Charles Strum, who was obituaries editor from 19703–2006, confirmed via email that a conscious decision to include same-sex partners had already been made prior to the start of his tenure.
There's a segment for "Love Yourself" where Bieber gets to strum an acoustic guitar on a sofa and fumbles on one of the last chords (he did well up until that point).
"Make America Great Again" opts for positive messaging in re Vladimir Putin's Greatest Shithead: "Let other people in/Listen to your women/Stop killing black children" over a Yank pal's catchy strum.
I have to plug my nose in churches so I don't snort-laugh when earnest men sensually strum guitars and croon about wanting the spirit of the lord to fall upon them.
Animation heavyweight Brad Bird dishes wisdom and explains why he loves animation in a new film essay from Kees van Dijkhuizen, Jr. that will strum the heart strings of anyone who loves cartoons.
Any time I bring it out, it's hard for me to finish a song because he wants to strum it, he wants me to play something that he likes; he's very much into that.
Kate Carr, a 38-year-old Australian now living in London, has released records featuring the sounds of rural Thailand and Icelandic fishing villages, with an occasional guitar strum as the only musical accompaniment.
What makes the song is what surrounds the strum: a smooth yet constantly changing backdrop of instruments and voices, with a neo-psychedelic lead guitar or a folksy harmonica sometimes floating to the surface.
Petty's songs are deceptively simple, the kind that could be plucked away by kids first learning to strum their way around a guitar or seasoned players studying how to make music and lyrics feel uncomplicated.
But she does have Andrew Lynch, a musician who is credited in the program as Margie's Heart, on hand to strum guitar strings and plink piano keys, singing out the longing she doesn't know she feels.
The song had an Am in it I hadn't learned yet, but the chord lit up on the fret board and it was a super easy one, so now I knew Am and hardly missed a strum.
As a group of traditional Shamisen players strum their instruments under the night sky, 20 drones equipped with 16,500 LEDs dance in the air, creating intricate aerial design flourishes that rival some of the best fireworks shows.
I want to hear each strum of a double bass distinctly, I want to feel the goosebumps of a trumpet flourish, and when listening to Björk, I want to know exactly what her otherworldly voice sounds like.
Diet Cig is a duo — Ms. Luciano on guitar and vocals and Noah Bowman on drums — but the production of "Tummy Ache" breaks away from the bare-bones strum-and-thump of its gigs and past recordings.
It was once the home of Belgium&aposs King Leopold II, and from the 1920s up until the finalization of the sale last year was occupied by the Marnier Lapostolle family, Beckie Strum reported for Mansion Global.
Lots of poets, even if they don't strum on a guitar, now write poems to be performed, poems to be heard, rather than poems to be read, just as minstrels and troubadours of the pre-Gutenberg age did.
Dankner, together with businessman Itay Strum, who was also found guilty on Monday, created a false impression there was strong interest in IDB stock when in reality banks and institutions were not keen on investing, the court said.
U.S. gun makers American Outdoor and Strum Ruger & Company Inc have been under pressure as retailers take steps to limit firearms sales following mass shootings in the country that has sparked a nationwide debate on gun control laws.
And the irretrievable loss, the one you can hear in pretty much every plink and strum from the onstage band, is the loss of the show's composer, Michael Friedman, who died a year ago from AIDS-related complications.
There are instances where all the duo needs are an acoustic guitar, an empty room, and time for Valentine to strum her way through forlorn tales, in sharp contrast to the aural dissonance that otherwise constantly surrounds them.
It is fun and accessible, too: visitors can strum electric guitars, learn chord progressions, remix songs in a studio or sing karaoke to "Got My Mojo Working" (popularised by Waters) or "Wang Dang Doodle" (a hit for Koko Taylor).
I went in to write with Paul Moak and Gordie Sampson one day and I woke up with that melody and strum in my heart and my head, and I don't even remember who threw out that first line.
Take a look at Smart Strum in action below (and check out the rest of Artiphon's Youtube channel here.) Another newbie on the list is String Bend, which lets you bend notes just by pressing on the pressure-sensitive strings.
At one of Dubai's newest facilities for private jets—built by Jetex, a fast-growing chain—passengers strum guitars on hammock-shaped sofas around a coffee table dressed up as a campfire, before being whisked away to their planes in limousines.
Sometimes, when you are young and far from home, it feels good to camp out in the corner of a dim, sticky dive, strum a single chord on a two-string guitar, and mumble the word "no" for fifteen minutes.
As part of SummerStage, the festival of free performances at parks around the city, they apply that in-your-face aesthetic to the abrasive sounds of Metallica in "Strum," a flamboyant work for 14 dancers clad in, appropriately, metallic silver.
That feeling fits in nicely with the aesthetic of preceding singles—the introspective guitar-strum of "Petals," and the bass-funk and bounce of "Feeling"—giving the hint that A Mineral Love may be Bibio's most blithe effort to date.
But patient equanimity has always been the preferred mode of Real Estate, whose indie rock harks back to the intertwining, strum-and-pick guitar patterns of Television and especially the band's fellow New Jerseyans, the Feelies, minus the nervous tension.
But tensions and suspicions grew, especially after the two most important political advisers in DeSantis' orbit — chief of staff Shane Strum and his wife, Casey DeSantis — went to the Florida GOP headquarters in Tallahassee in April to check it out.
A girl watches a robot climb the ruins of a burnt-out schoolhouse and sees it gingerly take flight, as the sun peeks from behind the clouds and the ambling guitar strum of The Pillows gives way to their angsty vocal howl.
Did I conceive of my body as a musical instrument that belonged to no one in particular — banged up and out of tune, the property of some hospital's activity parlor, available for anyone to pick up and strum a vulgar ditty on?
"The utility of the most functional object in the world will go to waste if potential users don't connect with it and can't see themselves using it," said Donald Strum, a principal for product and graphic design at Michael Graves Architecture and Design.
It's for this reason that speaking to her—two emos on a gravestone; crisp, brown leaves rustling under our feet—and watching her silence a gobby, half-cut east London crowd with one strum of her guitar strings makes me feel excited.
Among some DeSantis insiders, there was a feeling that the party was stocked with "Susie people," setting off a chain of events that led to DeSantis and Strum asking the Trump campaign for a new "hand-picked" top staffer at the state party.
I started writing songs when I was out on the road doing The Wall [tour in 2010-2013], I had a certain amount of free time in hotel rooms and so on, so I'd strum a guitar and maybe jot a few ideas down.
A video re-shared on Twitter by London's Capital FM on Monday shows the 21-year-old strum his guitar and sing to Death Cab for Cutie's "I Will Follow You into the Dark," under festoon lights as the newlyweds tightly embraced each other.
While it won't help you shred Judas Priest riffs or strum a G7sus4 in your jazz trio, the Chordelia is able to produce five chords—G, D, C, A minor, and E minor, which is really all that's needed to play 90% of pop music.
You can slide your finger around the surface to play sounds at different intensities, wiggle your finger while pressing a pad to add some vibrato, bump it against surfaces to trigger sounds, shake it, or even strum it in the air like a guitar.
As the music gains strength, the scenes change with each guitar strum: "Let us be lovers, we'll marry our fortunes together," the song goes, as a middle-aged man and woman dance at one Sanders rally, then two young women hold each other close at another.
"The winds aren't looking to get much stronger than they are now," but some areas east of Houston and toward Florida could see as much as 12 inches of rain, said Stephen Strum, vice president of extended forecast services at Weather Decision Technologies in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
"Lazarus" and "Dollar Days" directly allude to death ("Look up here man I'm in heaven"; "Just like that bluebird/Oh, I'll be free") while establishing a sweeping, mythic tone dependent in the former on the horns' bitter surge and in the latter on the acoustic strum.
If you couldn't tell by the guys calling her "my queen" and making up songs (well, not so much songs as repeating her name over and over to the strum of a guitar) about her, JoJo is certainly not wanting for adoring attention on The Bachelorette.
DeSantis, who defeated Democrat Andrew Gillum in Florida's gubernatorial race on Thursday, is reportedly considering lobbyists Kathy Mears and Scott Ross, as well as Scott Parkinson, who served as DeSantis's chief of staff in Congress, and Shane Strum, former chief of staff to former Florida Gov.
Here's a rowdy, self-aware, cranky verging on bilious boomer-rock epitaph written by Pete Townshend and sung by Roger Daltrey: "I don't care, I know you're going to hate this song," Daltrey sings as Townshend builds new versions of the Who's edifices of strum and riff.
" Relying mostly on acoustic instruments and echoes of Mexican and Caribbean traditions, Los Lobos strum and harmonize their way around the hemisphere, in songs previously recorded by El Gran Combo, Vicente Fernandez, Freddy Fender, Ismael Rivera and others, resurfacing some rarities like "Donde Está Santa Claus?
Where earlier samba performers tended to either strum on the backbeat, like Noel Rosa, or play intricate melodies in the classical style, like Luiz Bonfá, Gilberto's bathroom hermeticism required a new approach that combined the pulsing downbeat of samba's surdo rhythm with the steady backbeat of earlier performers.
At the start, a guitar was held in near darkness by black-clad men so that it looked as if it were floating in air; repeatedly, Ms. Planté walked to it, positioned her arms as if to play and appeared to strum a few notes before returning to the wings.
And that begins at the very beginning—a flashback to happier times, perhaps, but context certainly, of who this BJ is, before he (and we) gets tossed dramatically into the strum und drang of the game's depiction of the Second World War, and the alternative history that follows its fiction's Nazi victory.
Bookended by presidential speeches, the title track saves a staggering amount of gravitas for the album's final moments; over a sparse acoustic strum and lonesome electric twang, Price sings soft and pained about the darkness that's clouded the US over her lifetime—the Reagan administration selling arms to Iran, the specter of nuclear war, Trump.
Through the first two parts of Earthworks -- VICELAND's new environmental series that takes a compelling, musical approach to immediate environmental issues -- we've watched Animal Collective record ambient sounds to raise awareness for the deforestation of the Brazilian rainforest and Miguel strum away on an acoustic guitar to explore his roots in his ancestral homeland of Mexico.
Witness the white-knuckled pause before the chorus of the title track, the drum rumble during the second half of the Olympic "No Known Drink or Drug" that sets the pace for a victory lap on a runner's high, the tension in the "Arc of Bar" intro where the guitar is just about to come in on a windmill strum.
Strum understands that she's not performing any medical miracles, she's giving parents something they don't have to be ashamed of: "I'm not curing cancer or feeding the poor or making breakthroughs in quantum mechanics, but I have the privilege of helping parents come to terms with their adorable baby having to wear this thing — and to me, that means I have the best job ever."
Yet at the same time the music is plenty enjoyable in itself, without any conceptual framing — the frantic low guitar rumble on "Sue (In a Season of Crime)," the crunchy guitar-horn combo hook that keeps interrupting Bowie/punctuating his sentences on "Lazarus," and the airy sway of the guitar strum on "Dollar Days" suit Bowie's crumbling voice perfectly, and even the silliest string overlays make themselves felt as part of a larger organic groove that's always shifting, breathing, living.

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