The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-24 and 26-40, and 9 more places -- 86.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
It is played on hi-hat and mid tom, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 8 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is how often it moves around the kit.
The whole song is 21 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 120 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 120, 140 and 160 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 mid tom, in 4/4 at 160 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 86.8% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 2-8, 10-24, 26-40 and 42-48, and 8 more places. The time is kept on the hi-hat to start with, and it changes 3 times over the song.
8 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 21 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how often it moves around the kit.