Gilbert (Gil) Flores has been teaching lessons for over 10 years. He’s a multi-faceted musician teaching piano/keyboard, guitar, bass, drums, brass, and voice. He’s also written, recorded, and produced work for himself and many groups from classical to rock. Played in many community bands, jazz, funk, and rock bands, and brass bands and ensembles. Performed in Barber Shop Quartets and choruses, and won collegiate regional Barber Shop Quartet competitions. Gil has studied at Western Connecticut State University, with teachers like: Mr. Jaime Begian, Mr. Andrew Rodgers, Dr. Fernando Jimenez, Mr. Dave Smith, Dr. Kevin Isaacs, Mr. Dave Ruffels, and Ms. Patricia Lutnes. As a proficient and versatile teacher, Gil is comfortable with many instrumental styles and methods. He teaches students to play solo chord/melody arrangements for rock and blues changes on both guitar and piano. Gil also teaches light jazz and classical techniques. As a guitar/bass teacher, he teaches the fundamentals like walking, comping and improvising using both finger picking and flat picking styles, and can then move on to more technically challenging techniques like slap/pop, harmonic playing, and left/right hand hammering.