strum

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Michael Stipe can't sing, Peter Buck can barely strum, and while Mike Mills has some good, melodic bass lines (in the vein of Paul McCartney), he's threatening to crowd the guitarist out of the arrangements.

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  1. transitive verb To play (a stringed musical instrument) by stroking or brushing the strings: strum a banjo.
  2. transitive verb To play (music) on a stringed instrument in this way: strum chords on a guitar.
  3. intransitive verb To play a stringed instrument by strumming.

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  • Photo from adcurtin This tip came in from the comments: Here's my mod from back in the day before GH3 for x360 (I preferred the sg to the xplorer): He goes on: I hate the X-plorer with a passion, mostly the fret buttons, but the whammy bar and the part that gets in the way when I strum are also problems.
  • Michael Stipe can't sing, Peter Buck can barely strum, and while Mike Mills has some good, melodic bass lines (in the vein of Paul McCartney), he's threatening to crowd the guitarist out of the arrangements. —  Murmurs.com
  • In order to strum, you move the stylus across the guitar strings. —  Latest from PALGN
  • And if you're using the touch strip to strum, you can slide your fingers back and forth on the touch strip to whammy. —  WiiNintendo
  • It's used for soloing, tapping, and even strumming if you'd rather tap the neck than flick the strum-bar, but more excitingly, it's a second input in the music-creation suite, allowing you to modify what you're playing and enabling the guitar to be used as an all-purpose, flexible input device rather than just a five-button toy instrument. —  Eurogamer
 

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  1. Perhaps imitative.

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  1. Prob. a variant of thrum with intensive prefix s (as in splash, plash, etc.): see thrum, drum.
  2. from strum, v.
 

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