How Do You Do It? Chords

KeyA CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays939

How Do You Do It? by The Beatles is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of A. It uses the chords A, E, D and Bm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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      A            E                 D  A    E 
E|-----12-12-9----------------------10-10-9----|  
B|---------------------10-9--------------------|  
G|--9-----------9-11---------9-9-11------------|  
D|---------------------------------------------|  
A|---------------------------------------------|  
E|---------------------------------------------|  


   A         D 
How do you do what you do to me?   
 A           E 
I wish I knew  
       A                    Bm 
if I knew how you do it to me  
              A   D A E 
I'd do it to you 

  A         D 
How do you do what you do to me?  
 A            E 
I'm feeling blue 
 A                          Bm 
wish I knew how you do it to me   
                   A    D A (A E A E) 
but I haven't a clue 

  Bm                           A 
You give me a feeling in my heart 
   Bm  E                  A 
like an arrow piercing through it 
  Bm                                   A 
I suppose that you think you're very smart   
       D                     E 
but won't you tell me how do you do it?   

  A         D 
How do you do what you do to me?   
 A           E 
I wish I knew   
       A                    Bm 
if I knew how you do it to me  
              A   D A E 
I'd do it to you 

  Bm                           A 
You give me a feeling in my heart  
   Bm  E                  A 
like an arrow piercing through it   
  Bm                                   A 
I suppose that you think you're very smart   
       D                     E 
but won't you tell me how do you do it?   

  A          D 
How do you do what you do to me?  
 A          E 
If I only knew  
    A                    Bm 
Then perhaps you'd fall for me  
                A 
Like I fell for you  
Bm              A       D A  (A E A E A) 
When I do it to you 
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante