The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 34, 43-50 and 71-75 -- 24.1% 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 thirty-second notes. On its own it scores 35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- and the thing that decides that is how much of it falls off the beat.
The whole song is 49 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 2-bar phrase on crash, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 125 BPM, counted in thirty-second notes. It is written out above, and it covers 24.1% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 34, 43-50 and 71-75. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 14 times over the song.
35 out of 100 on its own -- a fair first song. The song as a whole is 49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.