The Doors

The Doors were an American rock band whose sound was shaped by Jim Morrison’s theatrical voice and Ray Manzarek’s keyboard lines. Their best-known songs include Light My Fire, Break On Through, The End, and Riders on the Storm, while MusicTales also follows deeper cuts such as Peace Frog and Shaman’s Blues.

14 articles related to The Doors:

Music Theory
The Doors songs that use just three primary chords

The prevalence of the three-chord song structure in Western popular music has, at this point, become emblematic. More…

July 26, 2022
Music Theory
The Doors songs with Aeolian and harmonic minor modes

Known since the Baroque era, the homophonic texture remains the most convenient songwriting technique based on the…

December 24, 2021
Music Theory
Dorian mode in The Doors songs

The Dorian minor mode is a part of the diatonic system that canonizes the usage of the seven heptatonic scales in…

September 29, 2021
Music Theory
Peace Frog: the only Doors song featuring Lydian mode

Peace Frog, released by the Doors on their 1970 album Morrison Hotel, has been met by a near-unanimous approval from…

September 6, 2021
Music Theory
Mixolydian mode in The Doors songs

It is no secret that the harmonic structure of a song and its adherence to the canons of musical theory is one of the…

August 3, 2021
Music Theory
6 songs combining harmonic minor and Aeolian mode

The polyphonic structure of Western classical music distinguishes it from other musical traditions such as Indian…

March 27, 2021
Music Theory
7 songs featuring Mixolydian mode

The dominance of the major and minor modes in Western classical music has been observed for several centuries, and this…

October 12, 20202 comments
Songwriter
Shaman's Blues: quintessential The Doors song refined their most controversial album

Shaman's Blues was written by Jim Morrison for The Soft Parade, The Doors' fourth studio album released in the summer…

September 27, 2020
Songwriter
Wishful Sinful: atypical harmony of Robby Krieger

Wishful Sinful is a song written by Robby Krieger for The Soft Parade released in 1969 by The Doors and considered to…

August 19, 2020
Music Theory
Mixolydian mode: famous examples in classical and pop music

In the 17th century, the major and minor scales became the basis for almost all classical music compositions. This…

April 5, 202013 comments
Choir
Gershwin's Summertime: the most recorded song draws inspiration from Ukrainian lullaby and African American spiritual

Written by the American composer George Gershwin in 1934, Summertime aria is now the most recorded song in the history…

July 3, 20193 comments
Songwriter
German roots of the Moon of Alabama

The Alabama Song first appeared in a collection of five poems published by German playwright Bertolt Brecht in 1927,…

August 27, 2018
Orchestra
Albinoni's famous Adagio is unusually solemn and offbeat because it wasn't, in fact, written by Tomaso Albinoni

Adagio in G Minor, attributed to 18th-century Venetian master Tomaso Albinoni, is widely familiar through its often use…

March 20, 2018
Classical Guitar
Asturias by Isaac Albéniz and its life in The Doors interpretation

Asturias is a famous work by the Spanish composer and pianist Isaac Albéniz. This piece, coming at around six minutes…

March 6, 2018