The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 136-151 and 253-270 -- 15% 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 crash, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 25 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.
The whole song is 32 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 109 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 109, 127 and 145 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 crash, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 145 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 15% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 136-151 and 253-270. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 16 times over the song.
25 out of 100 on its own -- a fair first song. The song as a whole is 32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.