The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-11, 14-16 and 33-35, and 9 more places -- 30% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
It is played on snare, floor tom and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 45 out of 100 -- a step up -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.
The whole song is 53 out of 100, so the beat is most of what the song asks for. Get it clean and the rest follows.
The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 105 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 105, 123 and 140 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 snare, floor tom and kick, in 4/4 at 140 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 30% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 1-11, 14-16, 33-35 and 41-44, and 8 more places. The time is kept on the toms to start with, and it changes 10 times over the song.
45 out of 100 on its own -- a step up. The song as a whole is 53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.