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Guitar Books

Teach yourself guitar. 

Eric’s been writing instructional guitar books since the mid-’90s and is excited to share some new guitar instruction and playing ideas with you. Some of his older books are no longer available, but the most recent three will be very helpful in your playing. Eric’s first book (circa 1997) was called Functional Guitar.
His second book was a short one designed for use with elderly aspiring guitarists called ‘Ready-Set-Guitar’. His third book was called Guitar Antics – The Guitar Unconcealed, Application & Technique and used extensively with students while he was teaching full time.

The Guitar Antics book expands on the functional guitar idea and instructional approaches and adds numerous examples and applications of harmonic minor, diminished patterns, arpeggios, licks, and more. The non-guitar transcriptions for the electric guitar are a lot of fun and illustrate some of the best public domain tune snippets as played on the guitar, great for new ideas and technique and phrasing.


Eric Peterson Fiery Flute Lines Book

New Project for Q2-Q3 of 2025!

Eric’s latest work transcribes some fiery flute lines for the electric guitar. This has been an ongoing project the last few years; he hopes to complete it this year.



Crazy Clarinet Lines for Electric Guitarists

Your electric guitar phrasing can be improved by practicing licks and melodic lines composed on other instruments, try these, technical clarinet lines for the guitar. 
Available from: Amazon Kindle | Google Play Books | Apple Books | Kobo


Classic Violin for Guitar Book

Cool violin excerpts arranged for the electric guitar including Bach, Vivaldi, and Paganini. 
Available from: Amazon Kindle | Google Play Books | Kobo | Apple Books



Guitar Antics

Replace that outdated method book with this functional guitar approach chalked full of examples and applications of music theory, exercises, and cool licks. 
Available from: Amazon Kindle | Google Play Books | Kobo | Apple Books




(Old) Guitar Antics Book

No longer available, widely utilized with Eric’s guitar students from 2000-2016. Recommend the updated eBook above 'Guitar Antics.'







Functional Guitar

This was used extensively during the height of Eric's teaching days from 2000-2016. It's no longer available and the concepts were further refined and made available in the Guitar Antics book.


Eric Peterson - Ready, Set, Guitar

Used as a Seniors Guitar Method for some local Senior Centers. No longer available.

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