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Today I Started Loving You Again by Merle Haggard

Piano chords, voicings & structure breakdown · 23 steps · 4 unique chords

Community chart. These chords come from a chart a musician wrote and shared on the iReal Pro forums, not from a transcription checked against the recording. Charts are sometimes written in a different key or simplified, and no second chart of this song agreed closely enough to mark this page verified. Trust your ears.
A Section 1, part 1 (×2)Step 1 of 23

G

LeftG2, D3RightB3, D4, G4
C4G2D3B3D4G4
Left hand Right hand Middle C (C4)

No source cited for this step

Harmonic Analysis & Structure

Overview

Key: G major · Chords used: 4 · Sections: 4

Form: A Section → B Section → A Section → A Section

Where these chords come from: a chord chart of this song written by a musician and shared on the iReal Pro forums, archived in the iReal Pro forum charts archived in ChoCo (de Berardinis et al., 2023). It's one musician's reading of the song, not a transcription checked against the recording. This page shows that chart as-is: the analysis below is generated directly from it by code, not written by AI. Consecutive repeats of a chord are shown once, and the piano voicings are our playable arrangement of each chord symbol, not a note-for-note transcription.

Section by section

A Section 1

  • G – C (×2)
    I – IV
  • G
    I

B Section

  • G – G7 – C – G – D7 – G – C – G – D7
    I – I7 – IV – I – V7 – I – IV – I – V7

A Section 2

  • G – C – G – D7
    I – IV – I – V7

A Section 3

  • G – C – G – D7 – G – C – G
    I – IV – I – V7 – I – IV – I

Chord vocabulary

ChordRoman numeralRoleHeard in
GIHome chord (tonic)A Section, B Section
CIVIn the keyA Section, B Section
G7I7Secondary dominant (V/IV)B Section
D7V7In the keyB Section, A Section

Harmonic highlights

  • G7 acts as V/IV: it resolves to C.

Sources & accuracy

  • Chords: the iReal Pro forum charts archived in ChoCo (de Berardinis et al., 2023). Community chord chart “Today I Started Loving You Again” (credited “Haggard Merle”, style Country Ballad) from the forum file linked here, CC BY 4.0 via ChoCo. Performer/songwriter confirmed from Wikidata.
  • Section names: the chart has no section markings, so sections were detected by code from repeated 8-, 12- and 16-bar phrases (letters such as A and B mark different phrases).
  • Chord charts are often written in a key that suits a particular singer or band, so this may not be the key of the original recording.
  • About the song: Wikipedia.
  • Not verified: only one chart of this song is available, so it hasn't been cross-checked.
  • Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.

Sources & Accuracy

Every chord on this page comes from the community chart listed first below. Piano voicings are our arrangement of the reported chord symbols, not a note-for-note transcription.

  • Chords from a chart a musician wrote and shared on the iReal Pro forums (archived in the ChoCo research dataset); may be in a different key from the recording, and not checked against it.

    Community chord chart “Today I Started Loving You Again” (credited “Haggard Merle”, style Country Ballad) from the forum file linked here, CC BY 4.0 via ChoCo. Performer/songwriter confirmed from Wikidata.

All Piano Voicings

#SectionChordLeft handRight handSources
1A Section 1, part 1 (×2)GG2, D3B3, D4, G4—
2A Section 1, part 1 (×2)CC2, G2C4, E4, G4—
3A Section 1, part 2GG2, D3B3, D4, G4—
4B SectionGG2, D3B3, D4, G4—
5B SectionG7G2, D3B3, D4, F4—
6B SectionCC2, G2C4, E4, G4—
7B SectionGG2, D3B3, D4, G4—
8B SectionD7D2, A2A3, C4, F♯4—
9B SectionGG2, D3B3, D4, G4—
10B SectionCC2, G2C4, E4, G4—
11B SectionGG2, D3B3, D4, G4—
12B SectionD7D2, A2A3, C4, F♯4—
13A Section 2GG2, D3B3, D4, G4—
14A Section 2CC2, G2C4, E4, G4—
15A Section 2GG2, D3B3, D4, G4—
16A Section 2D7D2, A2A3, C4, F♯4—
17A Section 3GG2, D3B3, D4, G4—
18A Section 3CC2, G2C4, E4, G4—
19A Section 3GG2, D3B3, D4, G4—
20A Section 3D7D2, A2A3, C4, F♯4—
21A Section 3GG2, D3B3, D4, G4—
22A Section 3CC2, G2C4, E4, G4—
23A Section 3GG2, D3B3, D4, G4—