While she teaches many styles of music, she concentrates on the history and playing styles of classic rock guitarists, including Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, and the Allman Brothers. She has taught at Berklee since 1990, when she became the second woman ever hired by the Guitar department. Stone received her bachelor's degree in professional music from Berklee in 1983. She received her master's degree in jazz studies from the New England Conservatory in 1988, where she studied composition with William Thomas McKinley and George Russell.