David Theunissen

My name is David Theunissen, I started playing guitar at the age of 12 and since then have never stopped learning more about the world of music and audio. My greatest inspirations are Blues, Rock, Metal and Fusion and I am a massive fan of legendary players such as Jimi Hendrix, Van Halen, Slash, Eric Johnson and Joe Satriani. I am a guitar player first and foremost, however I have learned to play many instruments in the meantime, such as piano, drums and singing. I also started getting heavily involved and passionate about music production, audio engineering and sound design at a very young age and ended up going to college (the Art Institute of Vancouver) to graduate as an audio engineer. I have also attended courses at the prestigious Berklee College of Music for guitar performance.

Since the age of 18, I have given guitar and music production lessons. I am extremely passionate about teaching and love to share my knowledge and experience with other musicians and aspiring musicians.

I have been an electronic music producer for 9 years now and also accumulated a large amount of experience with music procdution, sound design, synthesis, mixing and mastering along the way. I currently play in festivals and clubs as a DJ as well, performing my own productions. In general, I would consider myself an all-round musician, audio engineer and music producer.

I offer guitar, music theory and music production lessons from beginner to very advanced levels in very flexible formats depending on your goals and availability. The minimum time for a single lesson is 30 minutes, although I recommend 1-hour classes every week or two times a month.

When it comes to levels, I can teach all of the subjects from beginner to very advanced levels.

As a guitar player with 15 years of experience playing rock, blues, fusion, jazz and many other genres, I can help you reach your goals by sharing my personal experience and knowledge over the subject. The subjects I teach are:

• Scales and Chords (basic to advanced)

• Tonality and harmony (from simple musical keys to advanced harmony)

• Guitar performance techniques (strumming techniques, finger picking, bends, tapping, alternate picking etc)

• Songwriting and arrangement (from songwriting to expanding a simple idea into a full song)

• Musical scales, modes and its applications

• Ear Training

• Improvisation (blues, rock, jazz, funk and fusion)

I have always been a great student of music theory since the early days of learning music, I try and study and learn new concepts every week and have experience with very advanced music theory from playing and studying Jazz. These are the subjects I teach:

• Scales and Chords (basic to advanced)

• Tonality and harmony (from simple musical keys to advanced harmony)

• Songwriting and arrangement (from songwriting to expanding a simple ideia into a full song on all necessary instruments)

• Musical scales, modes and its applications

• Ear Training

• Sheet music reading

As a professional music producer graduated at the Art Institute of Vancouver and with 9 years of experience in the field, I can significantly help you get better at anything relating to music production, engineering and studio work. These are the subject I teach:

• Audio Fundamentals

• Recording Techniques

• Digital Audio Concepts (bit rate, sample rate, buffering etc)

• Signal Flow

• Music Production

• Gain Staging

• Mixing

• Mastering

• Psychoacoustics

• Logic Pro

• Synthesis & Sound Design