The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 7, and 6 more places -- 18% 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 mid tom, counted in thirty-second notes. On its own it scores 0 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is how fine the subdivision is.
The whole song is 35 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 56 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 56, 66 and 75 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 mid tom, in 4/4 at 75 BPM, counted in thirty-second notes. It is written out above, and it covers 18% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 3, 5, 7 and 11, and 5 more places. The time is kept on the toms to start with, and it changes 3 times over the song.
0 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.