# WoodShed Music — Loop, slow & isolate any song

> Musician's practice tool for looping, slowing, and isolating song parts. (iPhone/iPad app by Michael Colon.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/woodshed-music/id6782237670 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Michael Colon](https://appshunter.io/developer/6782237672)
- Category: Music
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 5.00/5 from 2 App Store ratings · 2 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 18.0 · 31 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-07-09
- Data updated: 2026-08-28
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/woodshed-music/id6782237670/reviews.md

## What is WoodShed Music?

WoodShed turns any recording into your personal practice room.

"Woodshedding" is what musicians call the focused, head-down practice that actually moves you forward. WoodShed gives you the tools to do it: import a song, loop the hard parts, slow them down, isolate or mute an instrument, and play along — all on your iPhone or iPad, and all without an internet connection.

IMPORT ANYTHING
Bring in tracks from Files, iCloud Drive, AirDrop, or your Music library. WoodShed renders a clean waveform so you can see the music while you work.

LOOP & SLOW DOWN
Set A/B markers and loop any passage seamlessly. Change tempo and pitch independently — slow a fast lick to half speed without the chipmunk effect, or transpose to a friendlier key — with studio-grade, artifact-free time-stretching. Save your favorite loops, and use the Speed Trainer to ramp tempo up rep by rep.

ISOLATE THE PARTS (ON-DEVICE)
Separate a song into stems — 2, 4, or 6 parts — right on your iPhone or iPad. Mute the vocals to create your own karaoke or backing track, mute the melody and take the solo yourself, or solo the drums to lock in your time. Nothing is uploaded; separation runs entirely on your iPhone or iPad.

RECORD YOUR TAKES
Play along and capture it with a built-in count-in and a two-bus console: control exactly what goes into the recording and what you hear in your headphones, independently.

EDIT LIKE A PRO
A live, non-destructive audio editor: cut, copy, paste, fade, adjust gain, one-tap normalize, and snap edits to the beat. Hear every change instantly — save when you're happy, or save a copy and keep the original untouched.

TUNER & METRONOME
A precise chromatic tuner and a sample-locked metronome are built in, so the tools you reach for every day are always a click away. Automatic tempo and beat detection seeds the metronome and count-in from the song itself.

EVERYTHING STAYS ON YOUR IPHONE OR IPAD
Your audio, your recordings, and your practice happen on-device. No account required.

PRICING
Try every feature free for 14 days. After that, unlock WoodShed forever with a single one-time purchase — no subscription. Restore Purchases is built in.

Questions or feedback? We'd love to hear from you.

## Key features

- Import songs from various sources
- Loop and slow down audio sections
- Isolate or mute instruments on-device
- Record practice takes with built-in console
- Non-destructive audio editing
- Chromatic tuner and metronome

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| WoodShed Lifetime Unlock | $29.99 | one-time |


## Recent user reviews (2 of 2)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/woodshed-music/id6782237670/reviews.md

### 5/5 — Everything I’ve been looking for!

*2026-08-16*

I’ve been searching for an app that slows down songs in order to learn jazz guitar solos. This one not only does that perfectly but also has excellent isolation capabilities. Every time I use it I find another useful feature that I can use. 
I’ve tried quite a few similar apps but this one is by far the best and easiest to use! Hats off to the developer!

### 5/5 — Great for Musicians, Students and Teachers!

*2026-08-05*

I’ve been a professional musician and educator for the last quarter of a century and just started using this app in the last couple of weeks and without exaggeration it has fundamentally changed the playing field!  I grew up using a metronome, a very famous brand of book with CD, and have tried every practice tool under the sun including similar apps, but I’ve never been more excited to hit the Woodshed (clever name) as I am now.  In a single app I can do the following.

1. Change tempo in increments of 1% manually without it getting distorted like on Youtube.
2. Change keys, so if I want to have a backing track for ANY tune playing in ANY key it can do it with just the click of a button.  This makes shedding phrases or entire songs in 12 keys a breeze.
3. Detect full 7th chords (No other app does this for some reason)
4. Create editable charts from said chords if you want a lead sheet, and if for some reason the app detects it wrong or you didn’t like a reharm the pianist did you can always override it.
5. Loop, cut and paste the track.  This could be helpful for composers, but for me it let’s me repeat a bridge on an AABA tune a few times for every chorus.
6. Use a "speed trainer" that can increase the tempo from a given percentage after a select numbers of repeats either in the song, a loop or in the built in metronome.  I literally was transcribing a solo this week, set it to 60% tempo where I could hang after learning the whole thing and then just set it to loop and increase tempo 2% every three repeats.  Gone are the days of having to use the forward and back arrows on my audio player and manually having to change tempos on YouTube in 5% increments!  Did I mention, it seems not to distort at all?!?
7. Isolate each instrument into a separate track so you can hear only the one instrument you're trying to learn by ear OR remove a single instrument to play along with the rest of the band.
8. Record yourself with the backing track.  This is going to be INCREDIBLY useful for getting my students’ All State and college audition materials. 9. It also has a built-in tuner, cool bonus!

The last thing I wanted to note is that I provided them some feedback about being able to save the changes I made to a track, specifically the key, and they already made that update happen!  
I’d give this app 10/5 stars if I could!

## Frequently asked questions about WoodShed Music

### What is the short name for WoodShed Music?

The short name for WoodShed Music is WoodShed. This is derived from the full name 'WoodShed Music' by removing the subtitle and any punctuation.

### How much does WoodShed Music cost?

WoodShed Music is free to try for 14 days, offering access to all features. After the trial, a single one-time purchase unlocks the app permanently. There are no subscriptions required.

### Does WoodShed Music have ads?

No, WoodShed Music does not contain advertisements. The app is designed to provide an uninterrupted practice experience for musicians.

### What devices is WoodShed Music available on?

WoodShed Music is available on Mac, iPhone, and iPad. The app is designed to work seamlessly across these Apple devices.

### How often is WoodShed Music updated?

WoodShed Music was last updated on August 2, 2026, with version 1.1.8. This indicates a recent update, suggesting ongoing development and support.

### Can I use WoodShed Music offline?

Yes, WoodShed Music can be used entirely offline. All audio processing, including instrument isolation, happens on your device without requiring an internet connection.

### What are the main benefits of using WoodShed Music for practice?

WoodShed Music allows musicians to focus on difficult song sections by looping and slowing them down without altering pitch. It also enables instrument isolation for targeted practice and provides recording capabilities.

### Is WoodShed Music suitable for beginners?

Yes, WoodShed Music is suitable for musicians of all levels. Its intuitive interface and powerful features, like the tuner and metronome, aid in learning and refining musical skills.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.10.0 — 2026-08-27

A click that follows your song. You asked for a click you can actually practice to — not a metronome you line up by hand, but one that sits in the tune's own time. Switch it on and it counts through the track with you, from the first bar.

Front of House. Every volume in one place: the original recording, each separated part, the click and the chord play-along, all on one desk. Slide the real track in against the stems to hear what a part is doing, solo anything, and mute whatever you want to play yourself.

Three guitars. The playable neck now comes as nylon, steel-string and electric, each with its own voice — and each string sounds its own note, so a run up the neck is a run and not a chord.

Pop or Jazz, chosen per song. Chord detection now asks what kind of tune it's about to read. A worship song was coming back full of sevenths nobody played; pick Pop and it reads the tune in front of it. This replaces the old Simplify setting — how a chart reads is decided when you detect it now, not afterwards.

The music keeps playing. Leave WoodShed or lock the screen and the track keeps going, with play, pause and skip where you'd expect them.

A song can be in more than one key. Tunes that modulate now read as more than one key, so the numbers stay right after the change. Songs you detected before this need one re-detect to see it.

A new shelf for the tools. The metronome, tuner, guitar and Speed Trainer are four printed tickets now — pick one up and go. The small readouts and dials that sat on the old rack are gone; each tool has them inside.

Smaller things: chord diagrams number your fingers instead of the intervals now (Settings switches it back), the Library's Add button moved up to the toolbar, markers delete the way they should, and dragging the playhead with Auto-Strum on no longer fires every chord it passes.

### 1.9.1 — 2026-08-25

The playable guitar now turns your phone sideways, so the neck gets the whole screen — with the bench a tap away and the low strings clear of the system gestures.

### 1.8.0 — 2026-08-15

Your chord diagrams make sound.

Tap a chord in the Chord Guide and hear it strummed on a real nylon-string guitar or a grand piano. Drag across the strings — or the keys — to pluck the notes one at a time, and tap again to damp. Strings and keys light as they sound, so you can see what you are hearing. Turn on the pick and the guide strums your song's own chords along with the track, in time.

Every string prints the note it actually sounds under your fingers, not the name of the open string, so a grip spells itself out left to right. The piano does the same under every key it presses.

New since your last update:

Tools. Your Metronome and Tuner have moved off the nav bar into a new Tools destination — a rack you can rearrange by dragging the units into whatever order suits you. On phones, Help comes back to the main bar.

The Chord Guide. Pick any root and quality and WoodShed draws the shape on a guitar neck and a piano keyboard, with every dot named for the job it does in the chord — root, third, fifth, the tension. Load a song with chords detected and the guide fronts that song's own chords, capo and all; open it from the Player's chord lane. Left-handed diagrams are a free switch that flips every diagram in the app.

Updates that install themselves. WoodShed now tells you when a new version is available and takes you straight to it.

You asked: pick your export. Save as WAV for uncompressed audio, or M4A at Standard or High quality.

The last five percent. Stem separation used to go quiet near the end and look stuck around 95%. It keeps reporting all the way through the finish now.

### 1.6.0 — 2026-08-11

Move through the song with your hands. Drag the waveform to scroll it when you're zoomed in, and flick to glide. The chord strip scrolls the same way, any time. Both now show a thin line along the bottom telling you where your window sits in the whole track — so the two scrub bars that used to take up room under them are gone. Double-tap either one to move the playhead.

One chord reader, always readable. The chord strip used to have two modes — its own reading window, or locked to the waveform — and the locked mode only paid off when you were already zoomed in far enough to read it. It's gone, and with it the zoom prompt that existed to cover it. What's left is the reading window. You can now hide the chord strip and the diagram lane independently, so you can keep the shapes and drop the symbols, or the other way round.

Every chord control says what it does. The chord badge names what it's showing you — the key, or "No chords found", or "Chords · tap to detect" when there's nothing yet. Detect chords is a real button now instead of a caption that looked like a label. And there's a new Clear chords if you want to drop a sheet and start over.

A Player with edges. The timeline, the chords and the transport are separated by lit seams, so you can see where one thing ends and the next begins instead of reading one undivided panel.

On a phone, nothing gets dropped. The chord controls used to vanish on a narrow screen and the badge jumped to the opposite side. Now the strip stays one row with everything on the flank you expect, and the zoom buttons move onto the waveform itself — and you can drag that little zoom pill anywhere on the waveform if it's sitting over peaks you need. The track length rides the opposite corner. Transpose and the playback row reflow instead of running off the edge.

Bass players, the tuner is yours. Set the Tuner to Bass and you get a four-string headstock that works out which string you're on, shows how far off it is, and lights that string's lamp when it holds. It reads all the way down to a low E — and to a low D when you're dropped, or tuned a whole step down. Four tunings: Standard, Drop D, Half-Step Down and D Standard.

A headstock worth looking at. The tuner's headstock is rebuilt from the wood up — lacquer with real depth, a sunburst edge, bound edges, and a pearloid inlay that names the note you're reaching for. The tuner buttons are outboard now, and each one turns as its string locks in. Get every string and the whole instrument lights up together. Prefer your tuners in one row? It still switches between the crown layout — 3+3 on a guitar, 2+2 on a bass — and in-line.

A proper welcome. Open WoodShed for the first time and The Opener takes you on a lap around the whole shop — Library, Player, Metronome, Tuner and Help — on a sample song that's already loaded and already charting its chords. Five minutes, a few things to try with your own hands, and it finishes on the Guided tours list. Start it again any time from Help.

### 1.3.0 — 2026-08-07

Chords, as shapes you can play. A guitar chord-diagram lane now rides under the
chord ribbon: the grip for the chord sounding right now, large and lit, with the
ones coming up queued beside it. Every grip carries its fret numbers, so a shape
high on the neck never reads as first position. Pick the size that suits your
music stand — Small, Medium, or Large.

A big chord card, when you want one. Tap the card chip on the lane and this
chord and the next float up magnified. Drag it anywhere, size it by its corner,
and it stays where you put it. Under the shapes, dots tick off the bar's beats
and a count tells you how many bars are left on the chord you're playing — so
the change never lands by surprise.

Simplify and a digital capo. Busy chart? Simplify trims to triads or sevenths
and hands you a playable grip. Put a capo on and only the shapes move — the song
keeps its real names, the way a chart works. Suggest finds the fret that turns
the most of the song into open chords.

The tuner speaks guitar. A new Guitar mode puts a headstock front and centre: it
hears which string you're on, lights the peg, and holds a lock lamp once a
string is in tune. The needle is calmer, too.

4-stem separation is clean again on iPad. A player told us their four stems came
back "almost like there is an extra drum track that's ms's off" — doubled and
crackling on recent iPadOS. Fixed. If you gave up on 4-stem on an iPad, try it
again.

Steadier all round. WoodShed no longer crashes on Intel Macs during chord or
beat detection, and a class of native error that used to take the whole app down
now fails politely instead. On Macs too old for the audio models, WoodShed says
so plainly rather than failing every attempt. Beat detection no longer halves
the tempo on some tracks, and an interrupted model download picks up where it
left off instead of starting over.

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