The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 31 more places -- 24.8% 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, hi-hat and kick, counted in thirty-second notes. On its own it scores 17 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.
The whole song is 44 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 94 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 94, 109 and 125 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 crash, hi-hat and kick, in 3/4 at 125 BPM, counted in thirty-second notes. It is written out above, and it covers 24.8% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 5, 7, 9 and 11, and 30 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 18 times over the song.
17 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.