Jason Mraz

But that guitar is the perfect companion to the human voice. You rest it against your gut, against your heart, and when you strum it the vibrations go outwards for all to hear, but the vibration also hits you on your body.

American Musician

Yngwie Malmsteen

To get a feel for the right-hand picking technique, you have to let the pick 'fall' from string to string as if you were strumming a chord. It's important that you don't separate the pick strokes.

Swedish Musician

Johnny Ramone

I started doing up-and-down strumming, basically to keep time and to play fast. As time went on, I started realizing other guitar players couldn't do it. I always went against the grain.

Lou Barlow

When I first started writing songs, I did play with my fingers, and I had these kind of weird strums. There's, like, three or four strumming patterns that seemed kind of unique to me.

Paul Gilbert

It's amazing how a lot of the metal guys have never strummed! And it's not that challenging, but it really opens up a lot of doors in ways they might not have imagined.

David Gilmour

I don't have a very disciplined approach to practicing or anything, but I do tend to have a guitar around most of the time, which I strum on most of the day.

British Musician

Jon Bon Jovi

I was just another long-haired teenage kid with visions of grandeur, strumming a tennis racket or a broom in front of his bedroom mirror.

American Singer

Ananya Birla

I love playing acoustic guitar because I strum with my hands to feel more connected.

Indian Musician

Jamie Lee Curtis

I can play rhythm guitar. I know how to hold a guitar and strum it.

American Actress

Dierks Bentley

I discovered early on that I was more of a strummer than a picker.

Strumming is typically used in casual or informal settings like campfires and small gatherings.

Informal Usage

'Strum' applies to other string instruments besides guitars, like ukuleles and banjos.

Not Just Guitars

Strumming involves a sweeping motion across strings, not individual picking.

Physical Gesture

As a noun, 'strum' can also describe the sound produced when strumming.

Strum as Sound

A strum can convey emotions in music, such as a soft strum for sadness.

Emotional Effect

Different strumming patterns can change the character of a song.

Strum Patterns

 Orpheus was overcome with a grief the human world could not contain, and so he decided he would journey to the land of the dead, a place from which no living creature had ever returned, to rescue his beloved. When Orpheus reached the gates of the underworld, he began to strum his lyre.

The tragic myth of...

 but out of courage to speak then there's something unique that my words can become and all of a sudden that fear that my words my jumble and stumble go away as i'm humbled by the thoughts of thousands of stories a long time coming that i know are strumming inside me as i celebrate

Amanda Gorman: Using...

 back corner it's a two-story house and we heard the back window start open so we just sort of looked up and saw a guy's arm come out with a black box to look moneybox reach out and strum it and

Strum

Informal Usage

Not Just Guitars

Physical Gesture

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