Something (tab)Beatles

"Something" — Harrison's masterpiece. Frank Sinatra called it "the greatest love song of the past fifty years." The guitar solo says what words cannot.

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From: [email protected] (Marc Hertzberg (History: Love It Or Leave It))
Subject: TAB: Something
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Something
(Harrison)
Intro and signature riff:
     F                Eb  G   C
-|--------------------------------
-|--10--b(13)12--10--11--12--13---
-|--------------------------------
-|--------------------------------
-|--------------------------------
-|--------------------------------
Verse:
    C                      Cm
Something in the way she moves
 C7                          F
Attracts me like no other lover
    D                      G
Something in the way she woos me
Am G#+
I don`t want to leave her now
C/G D F Eb G C
You know I believe in how (sig riff)
Verse:
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 in how
(sig riff, but end with A instead of C)
Middle part:
   A           C#m              F#m
You`re asking me will my love grow
A/E D G A G# G F# F E
I don`t know I don`t know
  A          C#m              F#m
You stick around and it may show
A/E D G C
I don`t know I don`t know
Guitar solo:
      C            Cm                   C7
-|------------------------------------------------------------------
-|-------8------------------------------------8--10--8--11/13--13---
-|--7/9-----9--7/9--12b(14)--b(14)12--9--7/9------------------------
-|------------------------------------------------------------------
-|------------------------------------------------------------------
-|------------------------------------------------------------------
                F
-|------------------------------------------------------------------
-|--b(15)13--b(17)15--13-----------13--13---------------------------
-|------------------------14--/14----------14-------12--12----------
-|---------------------------------------------/14----------14------
-|--------------------------------------------------------------12--
-|------------------------------------------------------------------
     D                                   G
-|------------------------------------------------------------------
-|------------------------------------------------------------------
-|-------------------11--11--b(16)14--b(16)14--b(16)14--12----------
-|--------------/12-------------------------------------------------
-|--12--14--12------------------------------------------------------
-|------------------------------------------------------------------
Am G#+
-|----------------------------------------------------------------------
-|------14--13--12/16--15--14-------------------------------------------
-|--12-------------------------b(9)7--b(9)7--5--b(9)7--b(9)7--b(9)7--5--
-|----------------------------------------------------------------------
-|----------------------------------------------------------------------
-|----------------------------------------------------------------------
C/G D F Eb G C
-|---------------------------10/12--10--8--10--8------------------------------
-|------------------------8-----------------------10--b(13)12--10--11--12--13-
-|--b(9)7--b(9)7--5--7/9------------------------------------------------------
-|----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-|----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-|----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Verse:
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 in how
Ending:
     F                Eb  G   A                   F                Eb  G   C
-|-----------------------------------16--15--14-------------------------------
-|--10--b(13)12--10--11--12--14--14--------------10--b(13)12--10--11--12--14--
-|----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-|----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-|----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-|----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Tab Special Notations:
----0---- play the open string (`fret zero`)
----5---- play fret five
----5~--- play fret five with vibrato
---5/7--- play fret five, slide up to fret seven
---75--- play fret seven, slide down to fret five
--8b(9)-- play fret eight, bend the string (at fret eight) to reach
the pitch of fret nine
--b(9)8-- play fret eight already bent to the pitch of fret nine,
unbending until it reaches the normal pitch of fret eight
----h7--- hammer-on to fret seven
----p5--- pull-off to fret five
---/7---- slide up to fret 7 (the starting fret of the slide is
undefined, judge by ear)
---15--- play fret 15, slide down (the ending fret of the slide is
undefined, judge by ear)
---0h3--- play the open string and immediately hammer-on to fret
three
---7p5--- play fret seven and immediately pull-off to fret five

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  • George wrote the title line from a James Taylor lyric, then changed the rest. The guitar solo is considered one of the finest in pop. It became the first Harrison-written Beatles A-side.