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• chord: For example, with an acoustic guitar, I'll just strum a chord mostly.

• string: At least on this night I was just about able to strum the strings, I tried to reassure myself.

• pattern: The chorus took the song up a notch moving from a reggae riff to a thicker strumming pattern.

Preposition: at

• end: And excluding the gentle acoustic strum at the end of The Honshu Underground.

Modifying Another Word

• just: For example, with an acoustic guitar, I'll just strum a chord mostly.

• away: His fingers work at speed, strumming away at his onstage companion.

• again: Leaving, I could hear that guitar strumming again.

• there: If you sit there strumming through sets of chords, you'll go a lot further, in my opinion.

Followed by a transitive particle

• out: Drum and triangle gently beat out a tattoo while Howe strums out the main melody.

• up: A SINGING detective from Glasgow is hoping to strum up a major boost for our hospice appeal.

Preposition: in

• background: They have hired a band which strums away in the background.