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We wrote it on acoustic guitar, but we already had the downstrokes that you could tell were gonna be power chords.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2024
For Ms. Reid, crafting elegant words with her pens is not just an artistic practice, but a physical one, with a meditative rhythm of upstrokes and downstrokes.
From New York Times • May 29, 2024
It leant backwards; it was printed and joined randomly; there were no real upstrokes or downstrokes.
From The Guardian • Oct. 6, 2012
Anyway, the chord progression goes like this: it starts with G major, on a couple of downstrokes.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
As she recognised Maryon Rooke's small, squarish handwriting, with its curious contrasts of heavy downstrokes and very light terminals, the colour deepened in her cheeks.
From The Moon out of Reach by Pedler, Margaret
