I wrote this song as an instrumental.  I then wanted to make it something I could play with my string quartet.

White River

Instrumental Surf Rock.  I play a Sterling AX30 guitar on this song. 

Here is a link about this guitar;
http://iheartguitarblog.com/2011/05/review-sterling-by-music-man-ax30.html

Call Of The Wolf

Instrumental.  I play Acoustic guitar, 3 fiddle parts, and mandolin.  The acoustic bass is a midi available in Cubase.

Mandolin Mood

I wrote this in Cubase and most of the sounds are virtual instruments.  The counterpoint guitar (with the echo) is me playing my Gibson Les Paul studio,.

July Morning

Tomorrow Night

I recently bought a fretless guitar.  I have been experimenting with how to play this guitar in my songs.  I chose a fairly simple riff to highlight the note sliding of the fretless.  This song starts in the key of A Minor.  Then, in the middle, switches to B Minor.  The end is a series of half step moves back to an A Minor.

Fretless Guitar Magic

Mark (Weighty Tree) and I have been working on this song.  We liked where it is so we decided to publish it here.  We have plans to continue developing this idea.  So you may hear an alternate version at a later time.  You can find music by Weighty Tree here:  https://soundcloud.com/theweightytree

Flying Dream (with Weighty Tree)


My Little Circus World (Tribute to Fellini) - Featuring music, that touches

Michael Klatte (music, that touches) and I decided to collaborate on a song. I sent him a draft of this idea. He then worked on it and created this melancholic piece about Fellini's circus movies. I saw La Strada and felt the mood perfectly fit the events in La Strada. I then changed my original piece about to fit his additions and add a little Fellini sound at the beginning and end. Here it is. Visit Michael's music at:

https://soundcloud.com/michael-klatte



My Circus World (Tribute To Fellini featuring music that touches)

An instrumental I performed on my GFI Ultra Pedal Steel (shown in the picture).  I think I am getting a little better at Pedal Steel.  I hope you agree.

Pedalling Steel

My friend Dirk Radloff (Heartscore) has influenced me to write some surf rock songs.  I now have 3.  I have put them into a playlist of my Surf rock songs.  I play my Squier Stratocaster (with Lindy Fralin split blads pickups) for both rhythm and lead guitar on this one,  I also use my old fender Precision Bass.  The other instruments are midis.

Here is a link to my pickups:
https://www.fralinpickups.com/product/strat-split-blade/

ProgRockDan Instrumentals

Spirit of the Wave

An instrumental I wrote and make little changes each time through.  This song raises each chord by three half steps.  So the key changes every time the chord changes.  The versus are major chords"  G, A#, then D.  The choruses are minor chords:  E Minor, G Minor, and A# Minor.  The bass line rises during the versus and declines for the choruses.

Easy Goes It

This song is in 5/4.  This song is about Black Jack Randall from the book/series Outlander.

Black Jack

A song in 5/4.  I play guitar, bass, and viola.  The guitar is a PRS Tremonti LE,  The bass is a MiM Fender Fretless Jazz bass.  The viola is played without effects.  All other sounds are those available in Cubase.  This is in the key of A Minor.  The viola improvisation was made in one take.

My dental surgeon was Dr. Patel:
https://www.indyperiodontal.com/team

The video of this song is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJqhxBQU4j4&t=37s

Dental Surgery

This song is in 5/4 time.  It feels a little off to me.  Perhaps I hit too many bad notes.  Maybe I overloaded it with instruments.  I play nylon string acoustic guitar (3 tracks), fretless Jazz bass, violin, and viola on this song.  Other sounds are midis available in Cubase.  My DAW is Cubase.  I use Izotope - Ozone for Mastering.  The title comes from the street we lived on in Chesterfield Missouri.

Fairway Bend

I am ProgRockDan1.  I started this site for those individuals who like instrumentals.  You can come here and find all of my instrumentals.  There will be minimal vocals on this site.  I love collaborating with other musicians.

You can find my Progressive Rock music here:
https://soundcloud.com/progrockdan1

You can find more traditional music (folk, funk, country, bluegrass, rock, and other roots music) here:
https://soundcloud.com/dan-lockhart

You can find the Dan X2 collaborations with Dan Blackard here:
https://soundcloud.com/user-106484228

You can find the Dan and Dan collaborations with Dan Blackard here:
https://soundcloud.com/user-590884876

If you heard a song here and you no longer see it.  It has been moved to this space:
https://www.reverbnation.com/progrockdan1

Feel free to support my music on Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/posts/58474831

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