The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-60, 101-115 and 133-139, and 6 more places -- 43.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
It is played on crash, snare and kick, counted in thirty-second notes. On its own it scores 23 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is how fine the subdivision is.
The whole song is 54 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 120 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 120, 140 and 160 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 crash, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 160 BPM, counted in thirty-second notes. It is written out above, and it covers 43.9% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 45-60, 101-115, 133-139 and 141-155, and 5 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 8 times over the song.
23 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.