Weekly Workout: Cross-Picking Accompaniment Tips

If you play with a flatpick, but want to create the kinds of flowing single-note patterns and arpeggios associated with fingerstyle playing, cross-picking is just the ticket. It has roots in bluegrass, as a way to emulate finger-picked banjo rolls, but you can apply cross-picking to any style. This Weekly Workout will get you rolling—literally—by taking a simple chord progression and working through several cross-picked variations.