Egypt (The Chains Are On) · Ronnie James Dio

119 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 5:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetalUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
5:56
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15, 17 and 74, and 10 more places -- 13.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 80 BPM
EGYPT (THE CHAINS ARE ON) · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 10, 25, 26, 38, 46, 50 and 19 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 11 sections: 67 keep time, 25 are fills and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-37.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART H
PART T
PART H
BREAK
PART AF
OUTRO
9 groovesFHS7AFS1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Egypt (The Chains Are On)?

80 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Egypt (The Chains Are On) hard to play on drums?

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 5:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Egypt (The Chains Are On)?

18 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 10, 25, 26, 38, 46, 50 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
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