strum
5
3.6
- noun
- /strʌm/
:
rasgueo
- The soft strum of the guitar filled the air, creating a relaxing atmosphere.
Examples
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Rhythmic strum
Academic text (1992) -
Clap on the upbeat strum
Academic text (2008) -
Sound files provide aural models for students playing chords, scales, and a variety of rhythm strums.
Academic text (1999) -
The strings do all the work while Wolf patches in handclaps, plucks, and portentous strum.
Blog text (13) -
The typical objectives of the hum-and-strum class are to enable the student to accompany folk or popular songs with basic first-position chords.
Academic text (1990) -
The set started with background bass covered by psychedelic strums and urgent rapping by the two vocalists, Fritz Helder and Starving Yet Full.
Blog text (19) -
Wandering through the galleries and plazas, you move through pockets of dynamically intersecting waves of reverb, feedback, strums, and chords.
Blog text (13) -
As the band played, the rich strum of the acoustic guitar captivated the audience.
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She loved the gentle strum of her favorite song, which always lifted her spirits.
Synonyms
1
6.7
A sharp vibrating sound made when a string is plucked
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Surface Forms
Etymology
The word strum as a noun comes from the same sound idea and names the short, sweeping 'sound' you hear when strings are played. So a strum is the sound made by that sweep of the strings.