Electric guitar...

YY1 said
Jackson is a GREAT quality guitar.

Along with Charvel, the sister company, they used to have a very unique neck profile, which I got spoiled to when I bought me second guitar in 1986.

Caution- "House Of The Rising Sun" has a wicked up pick, that's a great exercise, but very difficult to master, to the point of being much easier to leave out in order to stay in time.
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up and down picking is essential to developing speed, it may be a little cumbersome at first, but once you get comfortable with it, it really raises your speed and technical level. I learned to play in the bluegrass style, where up and down picking is essential to flatpicking lead work.