woodshed

Jazz musicians call the hard work of improvising being in the woodshed. To aid these skills they copy and memorize the jazz solos of the masters and experiment with their own ideas.

Her best musical ideas came after spending hours woodshedding.

woodshed by Bruce Miller December 4, 2003

woodshed

To practice one's instrument. It is a term that comes from jazz culture. It originated from drumset practice due to the fact that drum sticks, after hours of playing, start to flake off small bits of wood (usually covering the floor around the drumset). This is reffered to as woodshedding. Although it originated as a drumming term, it is commonly used for any instrument. A shortened form of the word is shedding. Also, people generally refer to a place of practice as a woodshed or a shed.

Roy sound great. He's been woodsheddin' lately.

I sound like shit. I gotta hit the shed.

This gig coming up is pretty tough. I'd have to shed my parts.

woodshed by Howie Gordon November 10, 2005

woodshed

the house that fights back

Let's go play darts at the woodshed

woodshed by zoogy May 13, 2005

Woodshed

To store up ideas, experiences, pantry food for future use.

Using a tape recorder she woodsheds song ideas and melodies to work on later.

Woodshed by Bruce Miller December 4, 2003

Woodshed

Where Broncos fans go to cry while the rest of the AFC West watches and laughs.

Bronco fan goes to woodshed in preparation for the ultimate goal of the basement.

Woodshed by The Fighting Amish November 15, 2020

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woodshed

to be in the woodshed

woodshed by Inquierer May 11, 2022

woodshed

See bikeshed: topics which have never recieved concensus and are likely to generate side-discussions and flames unless all participants are well-read on all the past history

Tom wanted to solve the world problems but everybody kept talking about something like woodshed

woodshed by frankscaramucci August 12, 2025