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

Ian contacted me about doing another collaboration.  As I have always liked Ian's music I immediately jumped on the opportunity to collaborate again.  I listened to his music (as I do when I collaborate with someone) and wrote the basics of this song.  Ian provided some great guitar parts and provided the feel of the Showdown at Dawn.  I then added a little guitar melody to top it off.  This is the result.  Perhaps a little too full but it is what it is.  Listen to Ian's music here:  https://soundcloud.com/ian-tait

Showdown At Dawn (with Ian Tait)

It has been about a year since Yutaka Hirai and I did a song together.  I love his guitar playing and asked to do another song together.  We got together and decided to do this song.  It has a strong dance beat but it also has other elements.  A little strange middle section that I thought would challenge Yutaka.  He came through with a wonderful solution to this little odd place.  You can find a video featuring an earlier version of this song at:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgBkOmzLgus   I hope you enjoy it.  You can find Yutaka Hirai's music at:  https://soundcloud.com/yutaka-hirai

Arts Fair (Featuring Yutaka Hirai on guitar)

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)

This song started out by listening to some of the surf music by my friend Dirk Radloff.  I remembered playing Telstar and other Surf rock songs when I was younger.  These are special songs for a young electric guitarist.

Then Dirk talked about his Epiphone Casino with Bigsby, which he sold.  It's the only guitar, which he has missed so far and he has sold a lot over the years.  I happen to have a Casino I bought from another guitarist (not Dirk).

I decided I wanted to bring these two elements together.  Surf rock guitar and my Epiphone Casino.  I added in a Stratocaster for the lead guitar component.  I considered naming this song "Dirk made me do it".  But, in the end, I named it after Dirk's Surf Rock music:  The Golden Tornadoes (Spelled with an e).

Dirk is a talented musician with several albums.  I hope you find his music as enjoyable as I find it.  You can find Dirk's music here:  https://soundcloud.com/heartscore

You can find the Golden Tornadoes music here:  https://soundcloud.com/heartscore/sets/the-golden-tornadoes



The Tornadoe Effect

I play my Gibson Les Paul (both lead and rhythm) and my Fender Precision Bass on this surf rock guitar song.  All other instruments are midis.

Surf Music

I had the itch to make another surf guitar song.  Just watching TV with my guitar in my hand and it all came to me.  So here it is.

Ready Set Surf Guitar

As the name implies this song is a tribute to Dick Dale.  Dick Dale plays a Fender Stratocaster.  I chose to play my Speedster Traveler guitar on this song.  I chose this guitar because it is the guitar I used when I wrote the song.

I frequently have my little speedster in my hands while watching TV.  I have written many riffs and songs while doodling on this guitar (while watching TV).  

Here is some information on Dick Dale:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Dale
http://dickdale.com/


Here are some links to Dick Dale music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwx2pephwKU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKpsuGMeqHI

Tribute To Dick Dale

The name for this piece is a quadruple entendre.  It can stand for Randy California the fine guitarist of the band Spirit.  It can stand for a person named Randy in California.  It can stand for the famous donut shop in California.  Finally, it can stand for a person who is horny in California.   

Here are links to two of those meanings:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy%27s_Donuts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_California

I wrote this on bass guitar.  That is, the bass line came to me in the morning when I was waking up.  I started recording it using my precision bass.  I play my Squire strat with the Lindly Fralin split blade pickups on rhythm and lead guitar. This  is one of my Surf Rock songs.  You can find others on trhis playlist.

https://soundcloud.com/progrockdan-instrumentals/sets/surf-rock

I mixed this piece in Cubase and I used  iZotope Ozone to master it.  I do not spend much effort promoting my instrumentals so this song will probably have few plays, likes...  That is OK with me.  If you found it I thank you for listening.

https://www.fralinpickups.com/product-category/guitar-pickups/strat-pickups/

Randy In California

Surf rock Guitar using my Les Paul Studio and my no name small scale bass.

Lightning Guitar

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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