I’m a Believer | TAB
Let’s take a look at all sections of I’m A Believer starting with that intro, here’s the correct and only way to play it:

Without TAB, you could just read the chords and lyrics:
| F/A C/G |
||: D7#9 (C D F, C D F, C D F) :||
But what if you didn’t automatically go for the inversions you saw in the TAB? You may have tried this impossible and wrong-sounding way:

This is great proof that, for guitar, TAB is necessary!
Once you graduate from being a beginner, you’ll look at that intro as a C-shaped F, starting on the 3rd, and an A-shaped C, starting on the 5th. The hammer-on lick is a D7#9 chord.
For now, you could just play as the TAB says and move on to the verse.

This is very simple but still, one detail is important. When the G is repeated, we play more strums. Aim to execute exactly as it says as you play with the original recording.
Here’s the bridge, it too is simple.

Here’s the chorus. That F/C is for guitar only, if there’s a bass, they play an F.

Apart from the intro, this is as easy as it gets, practice each section individually, then play with the original recording.
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