The singer started her performance with the strumming of her song Love On Top.
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Other factors that make "Hatari" particularly thorny to navigate: jangly strumming, jarring cuts, found-sound epilogues, Swahili lyrics.
Halvorson is known for her distinct sound on the instrument, some of which derives from her sharp strumming technique.
Like a lot of Miller songs, "Another Girlfriend" feels both loose and carefully crafted: With pedal steel wafting over acoustic strumming, it shuffles along slowly but sturdily.
Or maybe they can be found strumming and tooting away in rooms behind and under the stage ("Spider Man: Turn Off the Dark" and "Jersey Boys, " respectively).
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Inside, he found an old gaucho, strumming the guitar, the owner, and three younger guys sitting at a table, who started when they saw the horse come in.
On the screen of his MacBook, Evan Lowenstein watches singer-songwriter Jason Manns strumming an acoustic guitar in his apartment, where the only audience member is a snoozing dog.
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Cash's own guitar strumming riff was quite memorable as well.
"This one goes out to all the artists, writers, musicians, and teachers anyone who has had hassles in their lives, " Dr. Donahue yelled, strumming his black and white Fender Stratocaster.
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As the camera lens closes in, it moves past his strumming arm to an older man sitting behind him listening his eyes growing glassy as tears roll down his face.
"Winds with Hands, " one of the quietest cuts from Pelican's recent album City of Echoes, begins with acoustic strumming of an edgy but simple folk-tinged melody, building with each repetition of the tune.
On his own, Benoit plays the whole band on his guitar, picking, strumming, banging... and he does it effortlessly, in a style that's as comfortable on an arena stage as it is on a back porch.
For the past 10 years, he's the guy you've seen on the sidewalk, with the great body, strumming his guitar and singing, dressed in a cowboy hat, cowboy boots and underwear -- and nothing else, even in the dead of winter.
It worked for her rendition of the song I Love New York, but I wasn't so sure about using it for Ray of Light, which is such a dance track it seemed odd to watch her strumming a guitar for it.
As pop songs go, "Drink to Moving On" is practically perfect, with a catchy little call throughout: It's an emotional yelp that falls somewhere between a scream and a plaintive cry for help, as a sweet-sounding bass bubbles behind repetitive guitar strumming.
In the up position, nary a sound was produced, but given my habit of strumming closer to the neck, it also didn't register any notes that way -- you can see that happening in the (personally cringe-worthy) first half of the Engadget Show demo.
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Casey may lay out a grim recitation of society's ills pollution, disease, rape, drugs but he wisely keeps hope at the forefront of the mix, rooting his fears in parental love and letting a whiz-bang arrangement bury the dark subject matter in bright strumming and zinging synths.
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