Heh, I'd just call it practicing ... I mean, it's pretty much a very common way to practice for every serious musician I know (apart from practicing in a group setting, of course).
Woodshedding is definitely "just" practice but at least in jazz it does have a certain connotation. Like a single musician probably has a few different practice routines depending on their goals at the time and woodshedding is implying deep focus on a passage or specific application of a technique. Rather than like, playing through whole songs or running scales or whatever they might also do another time.
giraffe_lady|2 years ago