Easy tutorial for beginners with some explanations, the tab, the lyrics and the chords to play the song Something chords by The Beatles on guitar.
Something by The Beatles with chords
The three verses of the song are played in almost the same way.
So we will look only at verse 1, end of verse 2 and chorus.
Verse 1 | Something
The song Something from the rock band The Beatles starts with the first verse. To play it, you need to know several chords (don’t panic, there won’t be many positions to know afterwards) :

When you master this chords with your guitar, you can go on and read the following Beatles chords to play the music :
Remember that the chords are written above the lyrics so that you can play them at the right time. Therefore, it’s better to play while singing. Chords that are to the right of a phrase (not above a word) are played between the two phrases.

End of verse 2
To play verse 2, you will have to make a small modification on the last phrase “you know i believe and now” : the last chord is not the same, the C becomes an A :


Apart from that, this second verse of the song is played exactly like verse 1. You just have to place this new chord and follow the lyrics by continuing the same melody and the same rhythmic on the guitar :
Chorus of the Beatles song
Between verses 1 and 2 and verse 3 – which is played in the same way as the first verse – you will have to play the chorus of Something.
To do this, you need to know three new chords :

When these new positions are mastered, you can start playing this chorus with your guitar following the last tab :

You can improvise on this music with your guitar thanks to our classes about pentatonic scale.
Something video with tab
Something by The Beatles lyrics
The song Something by The Beatles is composed of three verses and a chorus.
The structure of the lyrics is like that :
Verse 1 – Verse 2 – Chorus – Verse 3
Verse 1
Something in the way she moves
Attracts me like no other lover
Something in the way she woos me
I don’t want to leave her now
You know I believe and how
Verse 2
Somewhere in her smile she knows
That I don’t need no other lover
Something in her style that shows me
I don’t want to leave her now
You know I believe and how
Chorus
You’re asking me will my love grow
I don’t know, I don’t know
You stick around, now it may show
I don’t know, I don’t know
Verse 3
Something in the way she knows
And all I have to do is think of her
Something in the things she shows me
I don’t want to leave her now
You know I believe and how
Play tabs of other styles like reggae song Waiting in Vain chords by Bob Marley.
Easy PDF score by The Beatles to play Something
The following score is a “home-made” easy PDF score for beginners that we created according to the above frameworks and explanations.
Summarizes everything we have seen and you can download it for free to play the song Something by The Beatles on guitar.