The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 8-9, 12 and 16-17, and 14 more places -- 18.2% 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 ride, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 19 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.
The whole song is 31 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 107 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 107, 124 and 142 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 ride, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 142 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 18.2% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 8-9, 12, 16-17 and 20-21, and 13 more places. The time is kept on the snare to start with, and it changes 19 times over the song.
19 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 31 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.