11 Top art books like The Art of Practicing: A Guide to Making Music from the Heart by Madeline Bruser

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The Art of Practicing: A Guide to Making Music from the Heart

By: Madeline Bruser , None

3.37

Format: None pages, Paperback

This landmark book enlightens amateur and professional musicians about a way of practicing that tra…

If you liked the art plot in The Art of Practicing: A Guide to Making Music from the Heart by Madeline Bruser, None , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. How Music Works

By: David Byrne

4.00

Format: 345 pages, Hardcover

How Music Works is David Byrne’s remarkable and buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lif… read more

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  • music
  • art
  • nonfiction
"Performers try harder."

-David Byrne, How Music Works

"You might say that the universe plays the blues."

-David Byrne, How Music Works

"The radio was shouting at you, pleading with you, and seducing you."

-David Byrne, How Music Works

"There's a good chance that you might be inspired by ideas that originate outside of yourself."

-David Byrne, How Music Works

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2. Beyond Good and Evil

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale

4.02

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with a… read more

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  • nonfiction
"The noble soul reveres itself"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

"...all that is rare is for the rare."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

"One is punished most for one’s virtues."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

"In music the passions enjoy themselves."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

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3. Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

By: Madeleine L'Engle

4.23

Format: None pages,

In this classic book, Madeleine L'Engle addresses the questions, What makes art Christian? What doe… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
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4. The Musician's Way: A Guide to Practice, Performance, and Wellness

By: Gerald Klickstein

4.10

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

In The Musician's Way, veteran performer and educator Gerald Klickstein combines the latest researc… read more

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  • music
  • art
  • nonfiction
  • education
  • self help
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5. This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession

By: Daniel J. Levitin

4.18

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

Whether you load your iPod with Bach or Bono, music has a significant role in your life--even if yo… read more

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  • music
  • art
  • nonfiction
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6. Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa

By: Haruki Murakami , Seiji Ozawa

3.70

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

A deeply personal, intimate conversation about music and writing between the internationally acclai… read more

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  • music
  • art
  • nonfiction
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7. Effortless Mastery

By: Kenny Werner

3.98

Format: 269 pages, Paperback

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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8. Songs of Willow Frost

By: Jamie Ford

4.00

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

Twelve-year-old William Eng, a Chinese-American boy, has lived at Seattle's Sacred Heart Orphanage … read more

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9. The Inner Game of Music

By: W. Timothy Gallwey , Barry Green

4.10

Format: 40 pages,

By the best-selling co-author of Inner Tennis,here's a book designed to help musicians overcome obs… read more

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  • music
  • art
  • nonfiction
  • education
  • self help
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10. Meditations

By: Marcus Aurelius , Martin Hammond , Diskin Clay

3.75

Format: 148 pages,

Written in Greek, without any intention of publication, by the only Roman emperor who was also a ph… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
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11. The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music

By: Victor L. Wooten

4.17

Format: 275 pages, Paperback

From Grammy-winning musical icon and legendary bassist Victor L. Wooten comes The Music Lesson, the… read more

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  • music
  • art
  • nonfiction
  • education
  • self help
"Never lose the groove in order to find a note."

-Victor L. Wooten, The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music

"And by the way, if I always tell you the truth, you might start to believe me."

-Victor L. Wooten, The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music

"You can't speak Music with notes alone, but you can speak Music without notes at all!"

-Victor L. Wooten, The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music

"Every time you move, and every time you play a note, a piece of yourself is left behind."

-Victor L. Wooten, The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music

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12. The Art of Practicing: A Guide to Making Music from the Heart

By: Madeline Bruser , None

3.37

Format: None pages, Paperback

This landmark book enlightens amateur and professional musicians about a way of practicing that tra… read more

Similar categories in Madeline Bruser's The Art of Practicing: A Guide to Making Music from the Heart book and Madeline Bruser's The Art of Practicing: A Guide to Making Music from the Heart

  • music
  • art
  • teaching
  • nonfiction
  • how to
  • education
  • self help

13. The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone

By: None , None

3.43

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

Humans have built hugely complex societies and technologies, but most of us don't even know how a p… read more

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14. The Practice of Practice

By: Jonathan Harnum

4.02

Format: 293 pages, ebook

Talent means nothing when it comes to getting better. Practice is everything. But exactly what is g… read more

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15. Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise

By: Robert Pool , K. Anders Ericsson

4.03

Format: None pages, ebook

A survey of the psychology of expertise, providing techniques for developing mastery of any skill, … read more

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16. The Urth of the New Sun (The Book of the New Sun, #5)

By: Gene Wolfe

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

The long awaited sequel to Gene Wolfe's four-volume classic, The Book of the New Sun. We return to … read more

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17. Sticking It Out: Chronicles of a Percussionist from Juilliard to the Orchestra Pit

By: None

3.99

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A vivid look inside the elite and cutthroat classical music world When Patti Niemi was 10 years old… read more

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18. Zen in the Art of Archery

By: R.F.C. Hull , None , Eugen Herrigel , Φοίβος Ι. Πιομπίνος

3.76

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

The path to achieving Zen (a balance between the body and the mind) is brilliantly explained by Pro… read more

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19. Pimp: The Story of My Life

By: Iceberg Slim

3.86

Format: None pages,

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20. There Is No Good Card for This: What To Say and Do When Life Is Scary, Awful, and Unfair to People You Love

By: None , None

4.04

Format: None pages, ebook

The creator of the viral hit "Empathy Cards" teams up with a compassion expert to produce a visuall… read more

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21. Zen Guitar

By: Philip Toshio Sudo

3.32

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Unleash the song of your soul with Zen Guitar, a contemplative handbook that draws on ancient Easte… read more

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22. The Art of Happiness

By: Dalai Lama XIV , Howard C. Cutler

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Nearly every time you see him, he's laughing, or at least smiling. And he makes everyone else aroun… read more

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23. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

By: Claire Dederer

3.79

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."

-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

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24. Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World

By: Gretchen Rubin

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project discovers a surprising path to a … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
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25. Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World

By: Henry Grabar

4.20

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly infl… read more

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  • nonfiction
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26. The Creative Act: A Way of Being

By: Rick Rubin

4.04

Format: 406 pages, Hardcover

From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their… read more

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  • music
  • art
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"Find the sustainable rituals that best support your work."

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

"In terms of priority, inspiration comes first. You come next. The audience comes last."

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

"When it comes to the creative process, patience is accepting that the majority of the work we do is out of our control."

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

"Turning something from an idea into a reality can make it seem smaller. It changes from unearthly to earthly. The imagination has no limits. The physical world does. The work exists in both."

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

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27. The Age of AI and Our Human Future

By: Henry Kissinger

3.46

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Three of the world’s most accomplished and deep thinkers come together to explore Artificial Intell… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • how to
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28. Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence

By: James Bridle

4.17

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Artist, technologist, and philosopher James Bridle's Ways of Being is a brilliant, searching explor… read more

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  • nonfiction
"What would it mean to build artificial intelligences and other machines that were more like octopuses, more like fungi, or more like forests?"

-James Bridle, Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence

"We can’t read water in the same way as we can’t read data…Working with it makes us more aware of the distance between ourselves and the matter under consideration: it reminds us that we share this wo…"

-James Bridle, Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence

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29. Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm

By: Dan Charnas

4.56

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Equal parts biography, musicology, and cultural history, Dilla Time chronicles the life and legacy … read more

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  • music
  • art
  • nonfiction
"The Yanceys were not a family that expressed love by saying “I love you."

-Dan Charnas, Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm

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30. American Marxism

By: Mark R. Levin

4.17

Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition

The six-time #1 New York Times bestselling author, Fox News star, and radio host Mark R. Levin expl… read more

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  • nonfiction
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31. How to Write a Song that Matters

By: Dar Williams

4.21

Format: None pages, Audiobook

An effective and inspiring guide to songwriting by prolific, iconic singer-songwriter Dar Williams.… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction

20 Best nonfiction books like The Art of Practicing: A Guide to Making Music from the Heart by Madeline Bruser

Transform Your Habits

How Music Works

David Byrne

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

Madeleine L'Engle

4.23

Transform Your Habits

The Musician's Way: A Guide to Practice, Performance, and Wellness

Gerald Klickstein

4.10

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Transform Your Habits

Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

Carrie Brownstein

3.83

Transform Your Habits

Where I Was From

Joan Didion

3.87

Transform Your Habits

Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution

Sara Marcus

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain

Charles R. Cross

3.99

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