| I take the mandolin from the wall and do a few strums in joyous celebration. |
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| The autoharp strums a single chord every 2 bars in the verse, but in the chorus changes chords. |
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| Acoustic guitar strums race into the picture, egged on by electronically produced hi-hats and bass drums. |
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| Her top 10 single is a grown-up version of an old tune, with heartfelt strums replacing the slink of old. |
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| Choirs of drunken angels sing over strings and horns while Conor strums his acoustic guitar with passion and rage. |
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| Twilight is a stark-naked love song, built solely around slow acoustic strums, wafting keyboard lines and Smith's shivering falsetto. |
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| For modern acoustic guitar-wielding crooners, monotony lurks quickly between hushed major-chord strums. |
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| Quiet strums and broken, stammering chords suddenly twist into intense breaks of almost classical Spanish guitar and deep south string picking. |
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| The kids hit the sand, and the adults sway to guitar strums and drumbeats. |
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| It was dark and silent other than the strums of Carl's guitar. |
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| Among these trinkets, Ivar strums his acoustic guitar and sings, supported by nimble-fingered bassist and backing vocalist Vincent Mougel. |
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| The couple demonstrate for me – Collins plays with his left hand, Grace strums with her right. |
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| The player's right hand strums with a small stick or quill, and the left hand stops one or more strings to provide the melody. |
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| Neil strums his guitar with his right hand while with his left hand he leafs through his notes! |
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| The soft strums from the guitar at times sounded more like a harp. |
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| Then the moptop with the guitar strums a simple chord he's strummed a thousand times in his tribute act, but this time it must feel like the eyes of the world are upon him. |
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| In fact, Harrison's love for Hawaii, where he had a house for many years, shows through in the rhythmic ukulele strums that form many of the songs' foundations. |
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| She snapped back to earth when she heard a few strums of the guitar. |
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| But the brittle strums of acoustic and Nick Kenyon's powerful voice add up to a heady concoction of protest song and a truly unplugged, but no less energetic workout. |
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| Though their musical palette contained more folky honky-tonk than their peers', it was difficult to get excited about their jaunty-yet-dull strums and limp ballads. |
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| But Ferrick's a resourceful alley cat of a performer, and the angst she suffers seeps alluringly into her croaky, staccato vocals and percussive acoustic guitar strums. |
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| Between television programmes, viewers can watch an empty room, into which a man walks, picks up a guitar, strums a few clumsy chords and walks out again. |
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| The on-off couple can be seen languishing around a velvet sofa as Mayer strums an acoustic guitar in the black and white portrait, shot by photographer Mario Sorrenti. |
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| When Louis-Samuel Jacques strums the cords of his mandolin, he does not do it to relax, but to liven a concert hall with his musician friends, the Gros Gnômes group. |
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| He is the dominant figure on its inner gatefold sleeve, sitting on a Persian rug, legs crossed and eyes closed, looking lost in music as he strums a sitar. |
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| Besides the bodhran, he also strums the mandolin and the bouzouki. |
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| The melody strings are plucked in a downward motion with a plectrum that is worn on the first and second fingers of the right hand, while the little finger of the right hand strums the drone strings in an upward motion. |
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