Stage 1 Smoke On the Water
Stage 2 Mel Bay's guitar chords
Stage 3 Power chords
Stage 4 Iron Man
Stage 5 Bar chords
Stage 6 I-IV-V chord progression
Stage 7 Pentatonic scales
Stage 8 Stairway to Heaven faked and played badly
--- 10 to 20 years of mindless noodling and wanking
Stage 6 Minor scale
Stage 7 All the other modal scales
Stage 8 Stairway to Heaven played properly
Stage 9 Any guitar solo you ever wanted to play
Stage 10 Eruption
Stage 11 Buckethead
Final stage Jazz