About the Author After more than a decade of co-leading Tribal Tech with guitarist Scott Henderson, and their eight CDs, GARY WILLIS has launched his solo career with the September 1996 release of No Sweat. He has performed with Wayne Shorter, Allan Holdsworth, Hubert Laws, Joe Diorio, Robben Ford, and Wayne Johnson A Texas native, Willis studied composition and improvisation at North Texas State University. After moving to Los Angeles in 1982 he became a course leader at Musicians Institute in Hollywood and later taught at California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California. Since Willis’ move to Colorado in 1993, he has become one of the instrument's leading educators, releasing three books and one video. In addition to this fingerboard harmony book, Hal Leonard will release his composition/solo book in 1997. He currently lives, writes, teaches, and mountain bikes (not necessarily in that order) with his wife Pamela and their two labrador retrievers, Buster and Jose, in Colorado Springs, Colorado.