Axe for 'guitar'?

[Victoria Neufeldt]

Our church choir director uses the "woodshedding" term too, for nitty-gritty
learning of a piece by going over small sections several times, isolating
the voices, etc.

Victoria Neufeldt

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> > For what it's worth, rehearsing by oneself has been referred to
> as "doing
> > some woodchopping."
>
> In my experience "woodshedding" (or sometimes just "shedding") is the
> usual term for this.
>
> "woodshedding" predates "ax" for 'instrument' by two decades, but
> I'm not sure there's a connection.
>
> Jesse Sheidlower
> <jester at panix.com>
>