The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-45, 47-77 and 81-102 -- 95.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
It is played on ride, hi-hat and snare, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 14 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is the speed of the hand keeping time.
The whole song is 25 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 75 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 75, 88 and 100 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 ride, hi-hat and snare, in 4/4 at 100 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 95.1% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 2-45, 47-77 and 81-102. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 1 time over the song.
14 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 25 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the speed of the hand keeping time the part that decides it.