Justin Roth Music

If you've ever heard Jacob Collier play guitar and thought "how is he even doing that?" — you're in the right place.

I'm Justin Roth: fingerstyle guitarist and teaching artist with 30+ years of playing in alternate tunings. When I first encountered Jacob's guitar playing, I recognized the language immediately — because I'd been speaking a version of it my whole life. But Jacob was using a vocabulary I hadn't heard before, and I had to go back to school.

That experience — equal parts recognition and revelation — is exactly what drives every tutorial I make. I don't just teach how Jacob plays. I teach why it works: the chord voicings, the inversions, the voice leading, the harmonic logic hiding inside those deceptively simple shapes. This is music literacy, not just guitar tutorials.

🎸 Subscribe and join a community of guitarists exploring Jacob's harmonic universe, and his Taylor 5-string guitar tunings DAEAD & DAEAE (+ 6-string equivalents) — one chord at a time.