JACK WHITE's Top 24 Guitar Techniques! 

The backdrop of his room kind of reminds me of De Stijl's album cover as well.

I Hope This Helps 1 - [0:28] - Staccato Leads (Ball And Biscuit, Over And Over And Over, Lazaretto) 2 - [2:34] - Octave Jumps (Little Cream Soda, Icky Thump, When I Hear My Name) 3 - [3:16] - Octave Above/Below (Blue Orchid, I'm Slowly Turning Into You, Sixteen Saltines) 4 - [4:21] - Rythnmic Octaves (Black Math Blackpool, The Hardest Button to Button Blackpool, Freedom At 21) 5 - [5:05] - Trumpet Trills (Conquest, Freedom At 21) 6 - [6:09] - Fuzz Rakes (Lazaretto, Ball And Biscuit) 7 - [7:30] - Spring Reverb Tail (Little Cream Soda, Salute Your Solution) 8 - [8:17] - Bridge Plucks (Freedom At 21, Would You Fight For My Love) 9 - [9:37] - The Siren Effect (Freedom At 21) 10 - [10:11] - Bass Line Riffs (Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground, Seven Nation Army) 11 - [10:44] - Arpegggiated Chords (Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground, Jolene, Do) 12 - [11:41] - Bass Simulation (Seven Nation Army, The Hardest Button To Button) 13 - [12:03] - Quick Switch Barre Chords (Black Math, Steady As She Goes) 14 - [13:16] - Power Chord Bends (Black Math, I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself) 15 - [13:56] - Nervous Vibrato (Black Math, Lazaretto, Steady As She Goes, Level) 16 - [14:17] - Chord Rakes (I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself, I Think I Smell A Rat) 17 - [15:42] - Dead Mute Strums (Ball And Biscuit, Dead Leaves And The Dirty, Ground, Hello Operator) 18 - [16:43] - Soloing Over Changes (Ball And Biscuit, Girl You Have No Faith In Medicine) 19 - [18:13] - Single String Turnaround (Ball And Biscuit, Jumble Jumble) 20 - [19:35] - Power Chord Arpeggios (The Hardest Button To Button, I Can't Wait) 21 - [20:28] - Octave Slides w/ Mutes (In The Cold Cold Night) 22 - [21:21] - Open Pentatonic Speed Lick (Girl You Have No Faith In Medicine, When I Hear My Name) 23 - [22:18] - Toggle Kill Switch (Black Math, You Don't Know What Love Is) 24 - [23:43] - "Friends" Picking Pattern (We're Going To Be Friends)

Meg White is unironically one of my favorite drummers.

I saw a good guitar lesson based around the work of a legend without any official nor viewer timestamps. So I volunteered. :) 0:29 Staccato Leads 2:00 Octave Jumps 3:16 Octave Above/Below 4:21 Rhythmic Octaves 5:05 Trumpet Trills 6:09 Fuzz Rakes 7:31 Spring Reverb Tail (it's just a reverb pedal, so you sound less dry while playing with fuzz.) 8:18 Bridge Plucks (Folks like to call it "Country Twang") 9:36 "The Siren Effect/Trick" (The name and the sound immediately triggered "Tales of brave Ulysses" by Cream in my mind.) 10:12 Bass Line Riffs 10:45 Arpeggiated Chords 11:41 Bass Simulation 12:03 Quick Switch Barre Chords 13:16 Power Chord Bends 13:56 Nervous Vibrato 14:47 Chord Rakes 15:42 Dead Mute Strums 16:44 Soloing Over Changes 18:13 Single String Turnaround 19:35 Power Chord Arpeggios 20:28 Octave Slides with Mutes 21:22 Open Pentatonic Speed Lick 22:19 Toggle Kill Switch 23:43 "Friends" Picking Pattern And That's it folk. Good Luck.

I never noticed your background is black, white and red. not until now when youre doing a Jack White video.

It’s so weird. I started learning guitar playing with Jack’s music. Basically I learned all of the White Stripes songs in two years 😅 So all of these techniques are just natural to me. And it feels really odd to see someone making sense of all them. Never thought i know many guitar techniques 😂

White Stripes is a great band to start playing guitar, because they have very complex and very simple songs. You can start by learning Fell in Love With a Girl and still feel excited to learn stuff like Ball and Biscuit.

Long time Jack White fan, this is the greatest thing I've seen in a long time

fun fact: jack often doesn't actually downpick when he plays stacatto like that. He just pinches the pick and flings it up into the string over and over again, it makes a REALLY strange and cool sound

How about Tom Morello?

One thing to point out when it comes to signal chain. Jack White puts his Fuzz before the Whammy specifically because of the sound difference. Since the nature of the fuzz is to create practically a square wave, it (in my own opinion,) creates a more organic sound from the pitch pedal, simply because its not having to process all the points on a sine/saw wave. Don't forget that if the hair is to furry on the fuzz, just roll back your volume knob to curb it a little. Good video.

Can you please do one about Josh Homme ?

5 hours ago I searches ”Jack white guitar techique” on youtube just after watching one of your videos, and now I see this uploaded 2 hours ago...

Maybe Johnny Marr next? He is absolutely criminally underrated by a lot of people but is genuinely brilliant, and he also plays very differently to a lot of guitarists and as such he would be a particularly interesting one to cover, imo.

I think when Jack recorded he just put his guitar on an octave, if you watch the "It may get loud" documentary, I think he mentions it in that. Class video by the way dude.

saw him live last night, he killed it

All right man! this is the best jack white guitar lesson ever!! Great video!

Hey There ! I just wanted to add few things on your video : - The sound of Jack White is better, imo, when you use Overdrive on the amp (or after the muff on the pedal layout so you don't boost it up) with the Big Muff Pi. It provides a nice Fuzz and really warm instead of the pedal alone. This way you can use overdrive as a base sound you can lower with your guitar volume. I found the "Texture" of sound more "fuzzy". - Seven Nation Army as been confirmed by JW on "It Might Get Loud" to be played with his Kay guitar which provides a really nice bass sound. - Instead of the kill switch, JW performs a Stutter technique thanks to the fuzz (you can hear in Black Math and Weep Themeselves to Sleep solos), which can be done not using a pick but your fingers - Also, did you chose your guitar with three stripes on purpose ? 'cos that is really jacky ;) Anyway, really awesome work and video dude !

Awesome. I saw him live recently and it blew my mind how he made his songs come alive simply with creative guitar playing

I really liked this video, Jack White is one of my favorite guitar players as I feel he is able to use the guitar to maximize the passion and the soul of a song. You just know he was playing around and stumbled on a sound and knew right away that he needed to use that new sound in his musical voice. I don’t think he went looking for a new sound but he definitely followed where it took him. My favorite Jack White moment is in the movie it might get loud and him, the edge, and jimmy page were all sitting around in a circle, then jimmy page stood up and started to play, jacks face changed to an excited school boy where you could visibly see the sound giving him chills and speaking to his core. The reason I like this so much is these little experiences are why I play guitar and I definitely knew what he was feeling. I don’t know if you dabble in Canadian Rock but Gordon Johnson of Big Sugar, Grady, and Wide Mouth Mason plays with a lot of open tunings and gets a very rich bluesy sound. I love it, check it out and I would love to see some of his stuff on the channel.

Waking up from my nap seeing a video on my favorite guitarist. I do not regret turning on my notifications

Definately one of my biggest influences.Thanks! There wouldn't be me playing guitar without Billie Joe, Kurt and Jack. I'd like to know what gear you where using especially the amp and the first guitar. Because a Montgomery Airline (like Jack uses a lot) is hard to find and way too expensive, especially when you're lefthanded like me. And I'd say there is no White Stripes sound without a Fender Dual Reverb amp.

Just hopped on the computer to see this go live! Awesome video my man as always!

QOTSA/Josh Homme would be such an interesting episode, we'd love to see that my man!

Epic tutorial, and thank you for taking the time to put it together. An impressive feat!

You’re so easy to listen to, watch and learn from. Thank you for putting these together.

Mike, u made my day with this video! I was waiting for this for sooo long time. I'm really glad u finally make that one!!!

Fantastic video! Thanks for these tips

That was definitely pretty cool. Jack White is certainly able to do a lot with a little.

Really enjoying this video. Fast paced but grounded and thorough.

Thank man! Been asking for this for a while, so glad you did this!

Jack always says that he lets the music tell him what to do. Whilst other guitarists might try and over complicate things he keeps it simple yet very effective.

Have you considered making a video about Adam Jones? I love how his playing can be surprisingly simple while still sounding epic and interesting.

Easily the best JW lesson I've seen. Really comprehensive, top work

This was great! Your guitar techniques videos are awesome.

Awesome awesome awesome vid man. You’re great at explaining things and giving descriptive characteristics to some of his techniques (like the “nervous” band). Helped things click for me.

Thanks for this!! You sounded great!

This was so helpful. Thats for the tips bro!

I've needed this for so long! Thank you man

This is a great video. You really nailed a lot of the techniques that make Jack's sound so unique and interesting. It's like you're showing me why I like the white stripes...

Dude this is the video i have been looking for, for ages!!!! Subscribed!!!

Thanks I always learn something new in your videos

Awesome!! Thanks for spending your time making this for us.. I love my whammy but you've just added to its usefulness.

13:04 Black Math such a sick punk riff

This was a really great and interesting video

Excellent video!! Thank you!!

Very in depth, thanks for this

Great video man! It's help me a lot!

This video is brilliant love this!

GREAT DEMO / CLIP . . . much appreciated !!!

OML thank you!!! I can never find a good jack white guitar lesson video

Finally!!! Thank you so much. Love your videos.

Thanks for that mate, lot’s of techniques to dig into

Great video you really help me with my playing

Excellent video. Learned a lot of my favorite guitar player

Holy shit this is such an underrated video. You nail his feel and sound so well. Definitely going to try this out in my playing.

This is so good. Thank you! 😺

Great video man, thank you. It explained a lot

Thanks man, there's a lot of useful information in there.

awesome! i love this series

Like the video, like to see more on this type. Thank you for the time and effort

Thanks. That was great. I'm a big fan of Jack and his unique style 😎🎸🔊🔊🔊

Really cool video! Very accurate and interesting.

Great video! Sometimes we get caught up with fancy techniques and complex chords and forget what can be done with the basics.

Brilliant video sir!

Finally! Thank you so much!

Awesome video, I love the inclusion of the pedals

thanks, this really helped a lot!

Great video and channel! 👌🏻

I suggested this a while ago, and you finally got to it. Nice!

I really enjoyed this ! For years I’ve been making these sounds . You guys articulate what amd how to do them . I make most of the sounds on a boss me80 . The pedals give it that isolated punch , the sound deserves

cool video i thought id learnt alot of bad habits but i tend to use alot of these techniques i feel inspired thank you.

Yesssss!! I with waiting for this for ages! U should do Tom Morello as well.

Really good video. You've set just the right tone. Knowledgable without being smug or self-absorbed! Have 'liked' and subscribed....

Great vid you nailed his tone!

The ball and biscuit riff...thank you man. Never got it!! You're a beast!

I have been looking for a RU-vid video for Black Math for three days and this is the most efficient way for the main riff 12:04. Thank you.

in jack's case, *noivous bends

Great video!!!!

I have heard a lot White Stripes in the last time and then you brought up this video. Thanks!

Well done. I appreciate your skills

That harmony setting on the octave below setting sounds awesome with that fuzz

I am a big Jack White fan. can't believe I only just saw this. I got a fuzz pedal the other day and after watching this video I put on reverb with it. AWSOME sound!

I do the nervous bends as well! Not intentional, its because I'm weak.

This was fantastic

Great, thank you!

Rory Gallagher please!

My only problem is that I only can like this video once. It is not facebook where I can go and ADMIRE it, so I have to write it down... I am in total love with Jack White's work. I have watched some videos before about Jack White's techniques but those aren't so good. This video is a very professional and complete one. Shows everything that I could ask for, and does it in a perfect way. It gives us an introspection about why he is a soo good and original musician. I really love Jack White and I have been following his work by now for ages, but this video just leaves me more impressed than ever about him. Thank you a lot, I really appreciate that you took your time to make this gorgeous video to show us in more dephts a brilliant musician. :) Thank you! :)

Dud not know I learned so much from jack when I started. Most of these I still use today.

Thanks for another great video! I just saw Jack White play a couple weeks ago. It was a great show. How about a John 5 artist series. That dude is amazing and it would be great to see some of his techniques.

3:00 little cream soda, what a riff. Criminally underrated song.

30 seconds in and you are already teaching something important. Great.

matt bellamy from muse would be awesome ;)

Thank you just thank you !!

Great video, one thing you left out that Jack has talked about a lot as part of his technique is picking primarily with upstrokes. It sounds like nothing worth noting, but it really adds to fhe aggressive sound he has. If you try it out on songs like Freedom At 21 or even Seven Nation Army you really notice how much it's part of his technique!

6:00 dude you freaked my dog out!

I use a lot of single notes as opposed to chords when I write, and despite never being much into Jack White, I love his over all style ✌❤

Just found this randomly. If the rest are this good I know I’m going to enjoy this channel.

This is excellent timing, I just got back from a Jack White concert!

Love this!!! Maybe a Dan Auerbach next?! Your videos are awesome! Thank you for taking the time to make your videos so accurate! So far you have done all my favorite Guitarists , Ace Frehley, Kurt Cobain, Angus Young, and now Jack White! Now we just need a Dan Auerbach (The Black Keys), Ron Asheton (The Stooges), James Williamson (Stooges), or maybe a Jamie Hindle (The Kills), or Kevin McKeown (Black Pistol Fire) or Marissa Paternoster (Screaming Females)?Just some suggestions that would be awesome! Thank you again! 🙌🏽⚡️🤘🏽🎸🎛🎚🎙📽