Like relaxing shuffles? This improv session is most definitely for you! 
This is also a nice set of relaxing instrumental acoustic guitar music for you to kick back, relax, and unwind after a hard day — or if you’re like some of us who need that sort of thing throughout the work day, well… get to downloading!
0:00 - Admittedly, I take too much time getting the percussion track set up on my Boomerang phrase sampler, but eventually bring in the first set of rhythm track around the one-minute mark.
1:11 - Time to throw some laid back melodies in there to go with the easy-flowing shuffle. The music at this point is relatively happy and cheery, but slow like the sap from a maple tree in the tail end of winter.
2:05 - To help build up the tune a bit, I bring in the octave pedal, which consequently is kinda tricky to use with the acoustic guitar. Your EQ has to be set just right so that it doesn’t sound too fudged up and sounds as natural as possible. And if you’re able to get the tone just right — and at this point I’m quite happy with it — it’s a load of fun!
3:12 - Okay, we’re ready to switch it up and bring in some minor chords to give our music somewhere to go — some nice tension and release.
4:07 - Mmmmmm…. harmonics.
Like a nice spice when thrown in appropriately.
4:36 - And throwing in the ebow here, because man, ebows are just a load of fun to play with on the acoustic guitar. If you can get it just right, it sounds like a cross between a clarinet, flute, and some sort of haunting stringed instrument. Additionally, though, it’s quite the challenge to get the placement just right or you get those shrills — and those are not as fun to have in your recording.
5:30 - Now we’re going to set up a harmonic pattern here, mirroring what we did in 5:20, but with a lower note and then a higher melody. Mmmmmmmm. Relaxed yet?
6:00 - Now that we’ve got our melodic and harmonic drone set up, it’s time to play a bit and bring it home. And coming up, you can just feel the end in sight, and so I start to end it with a repeating pattern and begin to fade both the Boomerang and my actual guitar playing — no fading done on the computer.
This was the first tune from my improv session on March 20, 2005, and I have a few more that I’m going to share and review over the next day or two. If you enjoy these, please leave a little love in the comment section and I’ll start working my way into doing more of these improv sessions and share them with you all.