He entertained his classes by strumming his guitar and singing folk songs. The instrument's tone depends on the musician's playing technique&colon; bowing, strumming or plucking. These techniques involve plucking, strumming, brushing, etc. Strumming a guitar, trying to write their next song, they were coming up empty. Josh Schwartz characterised the later Luke as "strumming a guitar being a goofball". King Goldemar enjoyed strumming the harp and playing dice. Jeff Mangum's guitar strumming is a key component for much of the album. Jimmy Page was strumming the chords, and Robert Plant had a pencil and paper. The EP contains four acoustic tracks that feature folk strumming. He used a variety of finger picking and strumming techniques. A separate, shorter set of strings were used for picking and strumming. The guitarist uses techniques like strumming ("rasgueado") or tapping the soundboard ("golpe"). Morticia is musically inclined, and is often seen freely strumming a Japanese shamisen. Dumont practiced by strumming folk songs by the likes of James Taylor.