Hello Kyle, Like you, I'm starting from the ground up and I am finishing up the basic Fundamentals 2 course.
I have about 5 or 6 more chapters to go. After that the plan is to start the Blues course. I like a few different genres of music, but I do believe that Blues is the foundation for a lot of it, so it just makes sense to me to start there.
Good luck with your studies.
Lou