Created and run by a professional guitarist with over twenty five years of teaching experience, GuitarPlayerPlanet offers the best private guitar instruction in Walnut Creek and the Diablo Valley!

GuitarPlayerPlanet was founded in Walnut Creek in 1989 by guitarist and educator Gary Valeriani. We remain dedicated to providing the best private guitar instruction in the Bay Area. With our convenient downtown Walnut Creek location, GuitarPlayerPlanet continues to serve guitar students from throughout the East Bay.

Whether you're interested in learning the acoustic or electric guitar, or if you want to play Rock, Blues, Jazz or any other guitar style, GuitarPlayerPlanet will put together a customized lesson program that will help you achieve all of your guitar goals.

Students of all ages and levels from beginner to advanced are welcome. GuitarPlayerPlanet is the premier place for guitar instruction in Walnut Creek and the East Bay.

Ask about GuitarPlayerPlanet's KidsGuitar program of guitar lessons for children as young as five years old.

Don't forget to check out our retail guitar shop!

GuitarPlayerPlanet is the first teaching studio to become a fully licensed dealer for Godin Guitars and Seagull Guitars, the highly respected guitar company based in Montreal, Canada.

Why do we sell only one line of guitars? The simple and honest answer is that Godin and Seagull Guitars are the best value in the guitar world!

Hand-assembled instruments, innovative design ideas and great prices combine to create one of the best guitar values there is.

Come test drive a Godin or Seagull guitar and find out what world class guitarists like John McLaughlin, Kirk Hammett, Lionel Loueke (Herbie Hancock), Peppino D'Agostino and many others already know.

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If you are a beginning guitarist interested in purchasing your first guitar, we can help you in choosing the best guitar for you.

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