Light My Fire (Lesson) - The Doors

Added: 2026-05-12

[00:00:00]Hey, uh how about a quick lesson on Light My Fire?

[00:00:03]Uh some cool chords going on in there.

[00:00:05]Uh it just starts uh straight in. And this is your I I assume this is standard E.

[00:00:10]>> [music] >> That's what I'm on.

[00:00:13]Uh so the opening chords go G >> [music] >> D and you can bar them here.

[00:00:21]F to B flat >> [music] >> E flat, A flat A.

[00:00:31]So that's >> [music and singing] [music] >> So the uh the vocal comes in with an A minor 7.

[00:00:47]>> [music] >> He just sort of arpeggiates sort of through it.

[00:00:53]>> [music] >> To an F sharp minor 7.

[00:00:58]And the the important thing is to get >> [music] >> on those high strings.

[00:01:10]>> [music] >> Careful.

[00:01:17]You know, it couldn't get [music and singing] much higher.

[00:01:21]Come on the chorus, G. Come on, [music and singing] baby, light my fire.

[00:01:28]Come on, baby, [singing] light my fire.

[00:01:30]>> [music] >> B I like it as a full B, but it might be but I think it's a full B.

[00:01:36]>> [music] >> And then come on, baby, light my fire.

[00:01:38][singing] So it's G D >> [music] >> below.

[00:01:45]Come on, baby, [singing] light my fire.

[00:01:47]E to an E major.

[00:01:51]Then another >> [music] [music] >> I don't know how many.

[00:02:04]G A D. [music] Come on, baby, light [singing] my fire.

[00:02:08]G A D B Try to [music and singing] set the night on G D E fire.

[00:02:21]>> [music] >> So during that it goes it come on, baby, [singing] light my fire.

[00:02:27]Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:02:28]And then you're A minor 7 to B minor [music] 7.

[00:02:37]>> [music] >> A little bit uh I don't know. Not not my thing the long the long organ solo, but but it's on the guitar you just do >> [music] >> And then you'll do the guitars although whatever comes out of it then.

[00:02:59]>> [music] >> Whatever those runs are to get out of it.

[00:03:06]>> [singing and music] >> And then you go back into it.

[00:03:18]>> [music] >> And do your last verse and out and you're done.

[00:03:25]Good luck.