The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-4, 9-11 and 17-19, and 9 more places -- 42.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
It is played on the floor tom, counted in thirty-second notes. On its own it scores 0 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is how fine the subdivision is.
The whole song is 19 out of 100, so the beat is not the hard part: what costs you is everything around it, the joins and the fills.
The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 110 BPM, and adds the notes back a rung at a time -- 3 of them. Nothing is a matter of opinion: each rung has a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next one.
Tempo goes 110, 128 and 146 BPM, and the gate at each one is 8 loops in a row with no wrong note and no wobble in the time.
PRACTISE THIS BEAT →A one-bar groove on floor tom, in 4/4 at 146 BPM, counted in thirty-second notes. It is written out above, and it covers 42.7% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 1-4, 9-11, 17-19 and 25-27, and 8 more places. The time is kept on the toms to start with, and it changes 23 times over the song.
0 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 19 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how fine the subdivision is.