Dumb question - how to select a track in Premiere Elements 2020 for copy/paste clips

Hi

I'm lassoing a bundle of clips and trying copy and paste them to a new track.

Whatever I do the paste happens on the same source track but not the destination track, I work around this by pasting at the end of the source track and then dragging them over to a new track.

My conclusion here is that I don't know how to select tracks correctly, I've googled and I'm not coming up with anything.

Can somebody please babyspoon me?

Thx