Product
How a practice week actually gets built
Every guided week starts from something real: a teacher's own note, or, for solo accounts, Woodshed's own read on where you are. Either way, nothing reaches a student as a generic, one-size-fits-all plan.
This week: Jordan
Mon: G to Em transition
Slow, isolated. No strumming pattern yet.
Tue: same transition, tempo +10
Only move up once it's clean.
Wed: bring the bridge back together
Full run at performance tempo.
Daily: palm-muted riff warm-up
Unchanged from last week, stays light.
What the student follows
Step by step, not a generic checklist
Every task traces back to something real: a teacher's own note on that week's lesson, or, for solo accounts, what Woodshed's AI suggests based on what you've told it and already practiced. Never a templated "practice 30 minutes" instruction. The student follows along, marks things done, and picks up exactly where last week left off.
The guided week, step by step
Not a checklist. Actual guidance
A Woodshed step isn't a bare instruction to repeat something. It's a small guided lesson: what success looks like, what to watch for, and the tools to actually do it.
A success target up top
Every step opens with what "done well" actually looks like, not just an instruction to repeat something.
Watch-out warnings woven in
The kind of thing that's easy to miss without someone watching, like rushing a tempo change or tensing up on a stretch, surfaced right where it would happen.
One step per page
No wall of instructions. The student sees what they're doing right now, then moves to the next step when it's done.
Metronome and timer built in
No separate app to open. The tools a step calls for are already there when the step needs them.
What comes back
The loop closes: that's the other half of the product
The student checks steps off, rates how each block felt, and can upload a practice video for review. For teacher-directed accounts, that's visibility into the week a teacher never had before, not just a log of minutes, an actual read on how it went. For solo accounts, it's your own practice history building up over time, which is also what Woodshed's AI reads from to suggest the next week.
Beyond the guided week
Practice: ear training, theory, and a tuner, built in
A standalone Practice section with a Beginner/Advanced toggle keyed to the student's level. The AI can weave any of it into the guided week when it's relevant, or a student can use it on its own.
Ear training
Short, focused drills for interval and pattern recognition, the kind of listening work that's easy to skip without a nudge.
Music theory drills
Quick, applied theory checks tied to what a student is actually playing, not an abstract textbook chapter.
Real-time tuner
Built in, so tuning up is part of the same app a student already has open.
Beginner / Advanced toggle
Keyed to the student's level, and the AI can weave any of this into the guided week when it's relevant.
Where the AI fits, and where it doesn't
For teacher-directed accounts: real work, from what you actually taught
For teacher-directed accounts: never invents repertoire
The AI only draws from the teacher's own note. It doesn't generate new material or assign anything a teacher hasn't already indicated.
Teacher reviews before publish
A draft practice plan is never shown to a student until the teacher has reviewed and published it. The teacher is always the last check.
Personalizes to this student
Because it works from real session notes, the plan reflects this student's actual lesson, not a generic curriculum.
The only added effort: notes
If a teacher already keeps session notes, there's nothing new to learn. If they don't yet, that's the one habit Woodshed asks for.
This describes the teacher-directed product specifically. See how solo accounts work, where the AI suggests what to work on itself, since there's no teacher's note behind it.
See it with your own music in mind
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