The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-14, 16 and 18-20, and 9 more places -- 43.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
It is played on hi-hat and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 56 out of 100 -- a step up -- and the thing that decides that is the speed of the hand keeping time.
The whole song is 61 out of 100, so the beat is most of what the song asks for. Get it clean and the rest follows.
The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 68 BPM, and adds the notes back a rung at a time -- 4 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, 81, 93 and 105 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 and kick, in 4/4 at 105 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 43.2% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 5-14, 16, 18-20 and 23, and 8 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 1 time over the song.
56 out of 100 on its own -- a step up. The song as a whole is 61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.