The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-17, 27-34 and 56-63 -- 34.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
It is played on hi-hat, snare and kick, counted in thirty-second notes. On its own it scores 24 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is how fine the subdivision is.
The whole song is 45 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 95 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 95, 111 and 127 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, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 127 BPM, counted in thirty-second notes. It is written out above, and it covers 34.8% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 10-17, 27-34 and 56-63. The time is kept on the toms to start with, and it changes 7 times over the song.
24 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.