What does 'shredding' mean?

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What happens to aircraft tyres if the descent is too sudden and what musicians ( specially guitarists ) do when they want the world to see how fast and how spectacularly they can work their instrument.

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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 : segregate

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>
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Take your pick!
 
Pollyanna said:
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 : segregate

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>
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Take your pick!
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Thanks for the references, LOL i'll take 'practice' for the answer though. :)
 
the word "shedding" also seems to have a slightly different meaning among gospel drummers. when those guys talk about shedding, they mean a few of them got together with their kits and traded grooving and soloing ideas. they call that a "shed session". it's like a jam session just for drummers.
 
I don't know if you saw the recent 'favourite quotes' thread, but someone once remarked that i sounded like i was building a shed when i was drumming.

so for me, shedding = drumming
 
Pollyanna said:
Isn't it about going off to the shed to practice?
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Pretty much. 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.

I don't think it's incompatible with dairyman's reference, you just need a bigger shed!
 
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.
 
Yep, hiding in the woodshed getting it together. That way when you come out of the shed, you have it going on, not a work in progress.

By extension, any practice. Shedding a song meaning practicing it to get it down.

Amatures practice until they get it right. Professionals practice until they can't get it wrong.
 
Fuo said:
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.
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That's what I thought until I'd heard about the backyard shed thing. I'm pretty easy on my sticks but a friend plays a lot of rimshots and his sticks look as though he go hungry ...
 
Wow , so many different meanings and they're all relevant. I never thought my question would get such deep responses..... Big up!
 
Fuo said:
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.
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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.
 
drummer-ish said:
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.
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It must be a Yank thing.....I'd never heard it before joining the forums. It's now one of my favourite musical terms.

"Woodshedding".......Love it!!
 
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