The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15, 33-47 and 65-79, and 6 more places -- 66.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
It is played on crash, snare and kick, counted in thirty-second notes. On its own it scores 15 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is how fine the subdivision is.
The whole song is 52 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 128 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 128, 149 and 170 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 170 BPM, counted in thirty-second notes. It is written out above, and it covers 66.9% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 1-15, 33-47, 65-79 and 81-86, and 5 more places. The time is kept on the hi-hat to start with, and it changes 6 times over the song.
15 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.