The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 14 more places -- 50% 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, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- and the thing that decides that is how many notes a second it asks for.
The whole song is 61 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 119 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 119, 138 and 158 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 158 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 50% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 1-7, 9-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 13 more places. The time is kept on the hi-hat to start with, and it changes 8 times over the song.
40 out of 100 on its own -- a fair first song. 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.