Basics: Scales and Modes, Leads, Rhythm, Note Reading, Rock, Blues, Two-Handed Tapping, String Bending, Speed Technique, Shredding. Bring in an iPhone, CD, iPod or MP3 and learn your favorite songs! Advanced Literature: Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Eric Johnson, J.S. Bach, Gary Hoey, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan. Electric Guitar instruction: It is optimal but not necessary to start students at 8 or 9 years old on an appropriate sized nylon-stringed classical guitar and develop finger strength and pick/fingerstyle techniques. A year or two later they move on to Electric Guitar.