Re: Losing Your Place
I think, Sherry, that cross-picking really may be the problem. In order to use a more intricate picking style, it's necessary, IMHO, to have fully assimilated the tune you desire to play. I could say, "Who the heck doesn't know Home Sweet Home?" -- but that's unfair.
In my experience, a lot of the "secret" to moving a melody into a more intricate arrangement, is having the melody stone cold in my head before I begin. Might make sense to try learning Home Sweet Home in "straight" picking, then moving it into cross-picking.
Or, alternatively, try to cross-pick a melody that you have already stuck in your head -- In A Gadda Da Vida, maybe, or Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring... Just kiddin'...
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