ReggaeDrummer
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Probably seems like a silly question i know, gotta learn somehow!
Actually the term was 'shedding' ( typo) . Same thing?
Nope. Shedding is what happens to the coats of long haired dog breeds and what musicians must do in order to improve their technical skills. Practice.
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Abe, you're in a mischievous mood Isn't it about going off to the shed to practice?
However, the online dictionary tells me:
1 to set apart : segregateTake your pick!
2: to cause to be dispersed without penetrating <duck's plumage sheds water>
3a: to cause (blood) to flow by cutting or wounding
3b: to pour forth in drops <shed tears>
3c: to give off or out <sheds some light on the subject>
4a: to give off, discharge, or expel from the body of a plant or animal: to eject, slough off, or lose as part of the normal processes of life <a caterpillar shedding its skin> <a cat shedding hair> <a deciduous tree sheds its leaves in the fall>
4b: to discharge usually gradually especially as part of a pathological process <shed a virus in the feces> <shed those tight wrists and shoulders so you can drum smoothly and easily>
5 : to rid oneself of temporarily or permanently as superfluous or unwanted <shed her inhibitions> <the company shed 100 jobs>
Isn't it about going off to the shed to practice?
I always thought woodshedding had something to do with the toll that lots of practice takes on your drumsticks... The area below my hihats/snare looks like the floor of wood-shop.
I always thought woodshedding had something to do with the toll that lots of practice takes on your drumsticks... The area below my hihats/snare looks like the floor of wood-shop.
What happened when Charlie Parker hit the woodshed with his alto sax? Did he leave bits of brass laying around (probably) or bamboo from the reeds? =-)
Leaving wood bits around is kind of the exclusive province of drummers.
I wonder what happens for folks who use those metal drumsticks.
In the states, at least, the longer version is "woodshedding". Go out to the woodshed so nobody has to listen to one's shit playing.