The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 30-35 and 50-55 -- 23.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
It is played on snare, high tom, mid tom and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 0 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is how many notes a second it asks for.
The whole song is 29 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 165 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 165, 193 and 220 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 2-bar phrase on snare, high tom, mid tom and kick, in 8/4 at 220 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 23.1% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 30-35 and 50-55. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 5 times over the song.
0 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 29 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.