Woodshedby Program Partner
A place to practice
The fingering you keep forgetting. The rhythm that won’t quite stick. A little work here can make the next rehearsal feel different.
Start practicingFree practice. No account needed to begin.
Which major key has one flat?
Take your time. Pick a key.
A few minutes. One thing a little more familiar.
Keep going in WoodshedInside the practice room
Start with something you want to feel more comfortable doing. Woodshed gives you a place to work on it.
Read a note. Find its fingering or slide position. Give the unfamiliar ones another pass.
Fingerings & positions 02Read a measure, hear the count-in, and tap the rhythm. Or slow down and write out the counts.
Rhythm reading & tapping 03Take a moment to study it. Play through as the cursor moves, then listen and reflect on your reading.
Sight-reading See everything in WoodshedA look around
Readable music. Clear choices.
The tools you need, close by.
One question at a time, with room to think.
For the person on the podium
Give that sentence somewhere to go.
You know what your students need to practice. Build an exercise around it, then send them the link.
Make it specific. Choose the notes, rhythms, or keys you want students to work on.
Send one link. Your settings travel with the exercise. Students open it and begin.
Leave room to try again. Students can practice before testing themselves, and revisit finished sessions on the same device.
Use Woodshed independently. Explore the planned director subscription ↓.
Planned for directors
Free activities give students a place to practice. We’re planning a director subscription for preparing materials, assigning work, and following their progress.
In development These subscription features are planned. They are not available to purchase yet.
Build printable worksheets and answer keys around the skill you’re teaching. Choose the clef, instrument, range, keys, and difficulty, with equivalent versions for different groups or another attempt.
Worksheet builder · Answer keys · Multiple versions
Save exercises and routines in your teaching library. Reuse them next semester, adapt them for a section, or assign a specific activity to a class or individual with instructions and a learning goal.
Saved library · Classes & assignments · Differentiated practice
Follow completion, attempts, accuracy, and improvement across devices. Students would have their own connected progress view, while directors could spot the skills that need another look.
Connected progress · Director reports · Student history
Set teacher-led games, section challenges, and shared class goals around the skills you choose. Game points would stay separate from assessment results: participation and mastery tell different stories.
Classroom challenges · Shared goals · Teacher controls
Build a Program Partner Skills Pathway connection so directors can link Woodshed activities and assessments to learning goals, return qualifying results, and choose when a skill needs their review.
Program Partner integration · Skills evidence · Director review
Additional director features will require a registered director account and an active Woodshed subscription. Woodshed will remain usable independently of Program Partner; connecting to Skills Pathways also requires access to Program Partner. Pricing, launch timing, and bundle details are still being worked out.
Tell us what would help you teachFrom one music educator
to another
Woodshed is created by Trey English, a band director whose teaching has also taken him into choir, theatre, college classrooms, and private lessons.
The idea is a practical one: give students somewhere to work on the small things that make playing and singing feel easier, and give teachers a simple way to point them there.
Before you begin
Current free practice activities are available without an account. A paid director subscription is planned for additional teaching tools, including printable worksheets, assignments, connected progress, and classroom challenges. Those subscription features are not available to purchase yet, and pricing has not been announced.
No. You can use Woodshed’s free activities without signing in to Program Partner. The planned director tools will require a Woodshed director account and an active subscription. Program Partner is a separate platform; using its Skills Pathways integration also requires access to Program Partner.
Woodshed runs in a browser on phones, tablets, Chromebooks, and laptops. Activities that listen to playing or singing need microphone permission; you can use the other activities without it.
Ordinary practice history is saved in the browser on that device, rather than a shared teacher gradebook. It does not automatically follow students to another device. A Program Partner Skills Pathway connection is planned; it is not available yet.
Whenever you have a few minutes
Free activities. No account needed to begin.