The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-14, 21-28 and 33-34, and 4 more places -- 22.1% 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 the hi-hat, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 34 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 29 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 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 hi-hat, in 4/4 at 125 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 22.1% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 8-14, 21-28, 33-34 and 113-128, and 3 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 12 times over the song.
34 out of 100 on its own -- a fair first song. The song as a whole is 29 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it.