Yeah, one of those boards - plenty of practice holes, and a bundle of the cheapest 1/4W resistors you can find. A 15-25W soldering iron with a 1-2mm tip and some 0.032" solder should be fine for this. ( I can't remember if Patrick made any recommendations in the instructions ?). While you're there, pick up some soldering braid and a solder sucker ( the sping-loaded 'pen' types work much better than the 'bulb' types IME), and make sure you practice a bit of desoldering too.