Dave Kohut Guitar and Bass Instruction

Specialties

Dave Kohut offers state of the art guitar and bass instruction from a certified Illinois teacher with Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Music. 17 Years teaching experience. All levels of student from beginner to advanced welcome. Lessons in the students home available upon request. All styles are taught including rock, pop, heavy metal, jazz, blues, and classical.

History

Established in 2013.

Dave Kohut began playing guitar at the age of 10. His influences include Joe Satriani, Eric Johnson, Guthrie Govan, Jimi Hendrix, David Gilmour, Jeff Beck, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Pat Martino, Pat Metheny and Scott Henderson. At the age of 17 he began teaching private guitar and bass lessons to classmates from his neighborhood high school. It was through this initial experience with teaching that he realized he wanted to make music education his career. Since then he has taught private guitar and bass lessons at multiple locations in Chicago. In addition, he has taught orchestra, guitar, and jazz band at Rolling Meadows High School.

In 2000 Dave graduated from the University of Northern Illinois with a degree in jazz and classical guitar where he studied with world-​renowned fusion guitarist Fareed Haque. In 2009 he attended VanderCook College of Music and earned a Master’s Degree in Music Education.