The Irish Rovers · Upon a Shamrock Shore: Songs of Ireland and the Irish
Rovers Fancy
Rovers Fancy is in G major at 120.8 beats per minute.
Tempo
121 BPM · Allegromedian of 190 analyses · 99.3–133.8 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- G major1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 23%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 190people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 496.7milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 444.9Hz · +19 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.75dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.787Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.159Essentia's danceability, 0–3
Source: AcousticBrainz, dump of 2022-06-23 (CC0) · MusicBrainz core data, 2026-09-17 (CC0) · how each number is measured. Measured up to 23.06.2022 — AcousticBrainz stopped collecting in 2022, so nothing released after that date is here.
What the numbers say
190 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Fewer than half of them — 23% — put it in G major, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 190 readings; 34% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 99.3 to 133.8 BPM.
At 120.8 BPM one beat lasts 496.7 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 124.2 ms and a dotted eighth 372.5 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 60.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 241.6. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 444.9 Hz, which is 19 cents above concert A at 440 Hz — the sort of drift a tape machine or a slightly different mastering leaves behind. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.
The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 3.75 dB: that is how far the level wanders from its own average, so a small number means a loud, flat master and a large one means a recording that still breathes. Its average loudness is 0.787 on Essentia's 0-to-1 scale, which is not decibels and is not comparable to a streaming service's number.
10 other recordings here are in G major; the ones listed below are the closest in tempo.
Beats per bar are not in this dataset. AcousticBrainz's analysis reports a tempo, a key and a loudness, and no time signature at all, so this page does not print one — a 4/4 here would be a guess dressed as a measurement.
Keys that fit with G major
Each of these differs from G major by at most one accidental, or shares its tonic. That is the whole of what a mixing wheel encodes; here the relations are named instead of numbered.
Delay times at 121 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1986.8 | 0.5 |
| Half note | 2 | 993.4 | 1.01 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 745 | 1.34 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 496.7 | 2.01 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 331.1 | 3.02 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 372.5 | 2.68 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 248.3 | 4.03 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 165.6 | 6.04 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 186.3 | 5.37 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 124.2 | 8.05 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 82.8 | 12.08 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 62.1 | 16.11 |
Half time 60.4 BPM · double time 241.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (496.7 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- DesperadoEaglesG major121BPM
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- Please Mr. PostmanThe MarvelettesG major121BPM
- Where Have All the Good Times GoneDavid BowieG major120BPM
- Around the WorldDaft PunkG major121BPM
- If You LeaveOrchestral Manoeuvres in the DarkG major120BPM
- Around the World (radio edit)Daft PunkG major121BPM
Recordings in G major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 121 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in G majorAll songs at 121 BPMG major at 120–129 BPM
MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 14e38906-3d96-4320-ba70-df43ddf9d724.