If you've been checking out The Five Eight Bar Blues You Should Know, you're off to a good start. Learning short, classic tunes is a great way to get familiar with essential blues chord  progressions and melodies.  

But maybe it's also brought you face to face with three of the biggest challenge fingerstyle guitarists face: getting your thumb and fingers to behave, getting it to sound like real music, and figuring out when and how to put your own spin on things.

In Saturday's master class, we'll take on all three of these common roadblocks and look at a simple, hands-on way to overcome each one of them.