Sentences with phrase «as strumming»

As much fun as strumming plastic instruments and living out your «So You Think You Can Dance» fantasies are, the genre has quite a wide scope.

I imagine playing with them as I strum...

As you strum your guitar, the crowd and band react to your performance.

Two 1932 sketches by Gottlieb of Rothko, captured in touchingly light - hearted vein as he strums a mandolin, and Avery studiously drawing, suggest a halcyon time of youthful creativity.

Not exact matches

We wanted him to do a piece as Roy Orbison, but he didn't know how to strum a guitar.»

CNN: Las Posadas: Joseph and the Virgin Mary travel in Maryland Guitars strummed and the cheerful voices of young and old sang «Feliz Navidad» as people in the streets cheered the birth of Christ with Spanish lyrics and upbeat rhythms in Oakview, a neighborhood in Silver Spring.

The strumming of an insistent guitar frames the song as a death march or final voyage.

Personally, I think that Cameron is at his strongest when he identifies quality of life as a major dirving force; the largest single component of this is freedom - the freedom to choose to work long hours in an investment bank or sit in a hippy commune strumming a guitar.

And then you happen to stumble your way over to Bethesda Terrace, as children run by, street performers are dancing and one solo guitar player is strumming «Moon River» ever so gently into the early afternoon air.

Julian Casablancas continues to sing as if roused from a deep sleep, the rhythm section keeps the tunes as puckery tight as the band's trousers and guitarists Nick Valensi and Albert Hammond Jr. balance melodic strumming with some impressive shredding.

These are skeletons who strum guitars, paint paintings and ride streetcars, as if they're animated versions of the colourful figurines associated with Dia de los Muertos — but cheerier.

Too bad it's not enough for Doug and Jimmy to have fun; they're forced to learn something in the process, too, as suggested by the perfunctory heart - to - hearts the two have in the film's third act, acoustic guitars strumming in the background.

Firth and Stone's head - butting exchanges may be the general focus, but there are plum supporting roles for Hamish Linklater as a ukulele - strumming suitor and Eileen Atkins as Stanley's aunt, always ready with a wizened, world - weary observation.

Ever since his great - great - grandfather abandoned his wife and daughter, the Rivera family sees music as a family curse and bans Miguel from strumming a guitar in front of them.

If the aim of art is to touch the sublime, to strum the thread of the collective unconscious that binds us each to each, as it were, then Lynch becomes a figure like Rainer Maria Rilke or William Blake or Beethoven — or in filmic terms, like Luis Buñuel or Carl Theodor Dreyer or moments of Sergio Leone.

The crew includes Willem Dafoe as a pouty German engineer; Anjelica Huston as Zissou's wife, the only member with brains; and Brazilian actor Seu Jorge (City of God), who's mostly shown strumming a guitar and singing David Bowie songs in Portuguese.

Star notes also appear, and they are triggered by waggling the analog stick forward and back, as though strumming a guitar.

However, it was a bit disappointing that despite Leighton Meester's musical talents (as seen in Country Strong), we only get a quick flash of her singing and strumming a guitar.

Heck, you may even discover a few mini-games such as horseshoe throwing, basketball, and a rhythm game where one player tickles the ivories and the other strums a guitar.

That honor went to Antonio Banderas, who, despite reviving his role as the gun - slinging, guitar - strumming El Mariachi, actually plays second fiddle to Depp's Agent Sands for most of the film.

With each strum of his guitar - like shamisen, Kubo's musical adventures serve as potent reminders of the power of memories, magic and storytelling.

If you are a classroom teacher who wants to lead some hands - on strumming and singing in your classroom as part of learning other lessons, these activities can also come in very handy.

Fatimah Chalets has sturdy little wooden bungalows as their staple and we found it to have a very friendly, welcoming vibe — or maybe it was just the guitar - strumming attendant who showed us around.

As I lounged on my bed and strummed my Baby Taylor guitar in the dorm room, «Alaska» Peter came in to invite me out with «a few people» who were going to a karaoke bar.

I wish FreeStyle Games had forgone both the basic mode (which is just open strumming) and the easy mode (which only uses the bottom three buttons), and started with the medium mode as their baseline, ramping up the difficulty from there.

Playing as a famous character trying to collect things has an appeal in itself that trying to strum to streaming notes just can not match.

This time it's going live as the game allows players to play in front of a live audience or to strum along with GHTV, an in - game music video channel.

The game lets you strum along to existing songs and allows users to create their own, original pieces as well.

A young Bob Dylan, before distancing himself from his reputation as a protest singer, strummed guitar for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

The first image you see as you enter Doig's show is a vivid, dreamlike oil on paper portrait of him, a magisterial full figure, curiously in a white cowboy hat, strumming a cuatro (a four - string guitar).

As part of this piece, ten musicians took up positions throughout the space for the duration of the exhibition, on chairs and a couch, with a cache of beer bottles at their feet — each guitarist singing and repetitively strumming a plangent composition by Kjartan Sveinsson, formerly of the Icelandic band Sigur Rós.

As it spins, it shoots off arrays of notes that are a touch discordant but still sensical, as if a trained musician is strumming or plucking at an instrument, trying to invent or conjure a new scale — a ghost in the machinAs it spins, it shoots off arrays of notes that are a touch discordant but still sensical, as if a trained musician is strumming or plucking at an instrument, trying to invent or conjure a new scale — a ghost in the machinas if a trained musician is strumming or plucking at an instrument, trying to invent or conjure a new scale — a ghost in the machine.

Links updated, Jan. 6, 2014 As regulars here are aware, I spend bits of spare time singing, strumming and writing songs.

(i.e. solar thermal tides strumming on the gravitational lunisolar guitar via wind / evaporation / clouds as Erl Happ seems to suggest...?)

But then the bass gets serious as bassist Tony Levin hooks up in lockstep with the kick, delivering a driving pulse over which strumming guitars and piano comps provide their harmonic foundation for Gabriel's vocal husk.

But there's a very crisp, bright sound happening here as well — the higher - register percussion, the acoustic guitar strums, and even the tape hiss all get some boosted presence, lending everything a very sculpted sound — rich and bright.

Just as ideal are the high - mids and highs that lend some treble edge and crispness to Callahan's rich baritone vocals and the attack of the guitar strumming.

The high - mids and highs are crystal clear, giving the vocals plenty of clarity and contour, as well as some bright presence to the guitar strumming and percussive hits.

Callahan's baritone vocals receive some added richness as well, which they don't really need, but the QC 30 does a laudable job of keeping things crisp and clear with high - mid and high frequency presence — the vocals and the guitar strumming get a solid treble edge.

This also brings out the attack of the guitar strumming, as well as the percussive hits.

London, UK About Blog The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain is a group of all - singing, all - strumming Ukulele players, using instruments bought with loose change, which believes that all genres of music are available for reinterpretation, as long as they are played on the Ukulele.

... but as I sat there and strummed my buggy blues away, I started getting that all too familiar urge to start ripping down the sheetrock on the wall in front of me...