The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 18-24 and 26-34, and 9 more places -- 71% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
It is played on hi-hat, snare and kick, counted in thirty-second notes. On its own it scores 16 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is how fine the subdivision is.
The whole song is 39 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 68 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 68, 79 and 90 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 hi-hat, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 90 BPM, counted in thirty-second notes. It is written out above, and it covers 71% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 10-16, 18-24, 26-34 and 36-38, and 8 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 6 times over the song.
16 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.