How to practice singing and strumming at the same time to get John Denver's classic campfire song running smoothly enough to delight your audience. Today's Challenge: Singing While Strumming Here's the first line of Country Roads drawn out in Taplature along with a standard campfire strum. Putting together the strum pattern and lyrics at the same time can cause major problems for many. In this article we'll look at the requirements to make doing so easy, in the shortest time