Sentences with phrase «strummings of»

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

The first couple strums of the guitar can transport you back to the day you saw your favorite band perform this song in concert.

While catching my attention with the strumming of the guitar strings, it found it's way to my ears when they played a cover of The Fugees - Killing Me Softly.

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

And the bass did not crowd out the delicate highs, letting the strum of a guitar or the clash of a cymbal come through clearly.

Given that we at least share a significant awe and admiration for the wilderness, it is natural that we also find ourselves enjoying other, tangentially related experiences: The mellow strumming of a guitar, the fresh taste of a good meal after our hard work, a riveting conversation, a cold beer, some good body surfing.

Thanks to the ukulele strumming of indefatigable leader David Pon, the South Team had jumped to an early start, setting off at 8 am.

The Metallos delivered a more intimate play - through, which, while muddy, was clear enough that I could just make out the strums of the guitar.

Not exact matches

It's sort of like a real - life version of Guitar Hero or Rock Band, except instead of slapping away at a series of buttons — an act that has just about zero relation to the real thing — you're strumming away on an actual guitar.

Will this latest storm of strum and drang about «corporate welfare» and tax reform, a standard sound bite of every new White Administration — or at least every new Democratic Party White House Administration — actually result in any meaningful changes to the tax codes.

Following «Reckoner,» «House of Cards» begins with reverbed guitar strums accentuated with snare hits.

Meanwhile, Wehner and Gerson can continue to strum the tune of national defense to an audience that isn't listening.

On the album opener, «Cape Canaveral,» Oberst goes stream - of - conscience over a simple acoustic strum, painting images like «Watch the migrants smoke in the old orange grove / And the red rocket blaze over Cape Canaveral.»

Breezy acoustic strumming and a loose rambling of drums are somehow fused together to form an accessible concoction of alt - country, not altogether different from Cold Roses - era Ryan Adams.

I lived in the area and had to see these folks in all their glory strumming guitars and beating drums all in the name of God (and Jesus).

The winner last year modified his cross, into a type of guitar, and strummed it and sang.

To continue our analogy, if one has too shallow or too narrow an idea of prayer, he is likely to keep repeating the same words and phrases like a child strumming out some monotonous little tune.

The intelligence that one's runaway daughter had given her life to Christ, been baptized in a bathtub, and taken up residence with a bunch of barefoot, long - haired, guitar - strumming, tongues - speaking twenty - year - olds in a place called Maranatha House was only marginally less disturbing to the average Methodist mother than the news that the same daughter had moved in with a professional tabla drummer and changed her name to Windflower.

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 little acoustic guitar strums that drift in and out of the larger tapestry of sound.

I can't help but picture one of those lame artist college types sitting outside under a tree strumming a bad tune on a guitar trying to impress the women.

And beside them stand a nervous mother and a befuddled father and a cousin strumming on a guitar and an inebriated best man, all of whom instinctively sense that the union of man and woman is too great a mystery to confront without all the help we can get.

We followed up our conversation with two hours of music, sung and strummed around a condenser mic.

I had a little collection of songs because Liam and I had this great routine: he would take baths and I would pull up a stool beside the tub, strum on my guitar, and write songs about our day.

The Laurie Berkner Songbook also includes suggested guitar strumming patterns and lots of related play activities suitable for both the home and the classroom.

Lake Villa's «Doc» Perry Brusenbach will demonstrate medical procedures of the 1860s, while Battle Cry Band banjo players Joe Nobling and Dale Whiteside strum and stroll the territory.

BuskNY, an advocacy group for underground buskers, announced that NYC has strummed up over $ 100,000 in settlements for the wrongful arrests of performers.

ALBANY — There are no more than three dozen of them during the day, milling, munching, strumming and holding signs amid the 75 tents they plopped in a park between the Capitol and City Hall.

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.

The Taylor 314 guitar incorporates a grand auditorium style design that has the width and depth of a dreadnought shape yet offers powerfully rich tones that will blow you away when you strum it the first time.

Last year biologist Anne Wignall from Australia's Macquarie University discovered that the bug lures food by strumming webs with its legs, mimicking the vibrations of a trapped fly.

Strumming through the pages exposed me to a whole new world of clean eating (gasp, protein powder?

The stock answer of course, is guitar - and, while this may be common enough to seem cliché, in fact the survey proved there may be something genuinely alluring about those who can strum a chord.

The song begins with a 30 - second barrage of drums, distorted guitar, and muffled vocals, but then rides a single crash into the subtle strums and melancholy vocals of a shoegaze album.

Strumming away on Ernesto's guitar transports Miguel to the Land of the Dead, along with a floppy stray dog whose presence feels more like a matter of obligation — sidekick, check — than a product of Pixar's vaunted story - building process.

At the center of things is 12 - year - old Miguel Rivera (voiced by Anthony Gonzalez), a lifelong music lover whose family has forbidden him to strum a guitar and sing.

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.

The boy has happy feet and happy fingers: Miguel's greatest joy is strumming the guitar he has hidden away in a cubbyhole, playing along to old VHS tapes of his long - deceased idol, singing star, Ernesto de la Cruz.

Miguel is not prepared for what happens at the moment he first strums de la Cruz's 6 - string; he's suddenly transformed into one of the spirits so populous during El Dia de los Muertos.

But with the very first strum, Miguel is transported to the Land of the Dead.

We mortals like to imagine that holding the fate of existence in your hands at all time is a burden, when the real world gods that strum the strings of the planet seem to be having a delightful time fiddling while Rome burns.

In Lipsitz's movie, air guitarists of all ages, races and creeds strum their way from regional competitions (in Salem, Ore., a 6 - year - old girl jams to Nirvana's «Smells Like Teen Spirit» against a 21 - year - old bad boy) to the U.S. championships to the world contest, held in Finland.

Having become a global sensation on the strength of a viral video that features her glumly strumming an acoustic guitar in Aladdin Sane makeup, Jerrica travels to Los Angeles with her backing band, which consists of her sister and her aunt's two foster daughters, and which, in true modern - day origin story fashion, isn't called The Holograms until the last minute of the movie.

Another thing the touch pad allows you to do is tap on it to play notes instead of strumming, which works well for the most part.

They're part of a horde of young people who play music and party together, go to the same rock club and strum guitars on the beach and pass around books of hand - transcribed lyrics by Bob Dylan and Blondie and Lou Reed.

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.

This is helped by the harp - strum noise that accompanies every opening of the beauty institute's door.

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.

At a children's birthday party, the smiling, guitar - strumming entertainer sings an extremely graphic song about the moment of their conception.