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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. When a musician says he is "Woodshedding" he means he is working intensely on a new project. Most likely he will refuse to let anyone hear what he is working on until he can present a finished project.