The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-12 and 14-15, and 9 more places -- 38.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
It is played on ride, snare and kick, counted in thirty-second notes. On its own it scores 20 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is how fine the subdivision is.
The whole song is 38 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 80 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 80, 94 and 107 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 ride, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 107 BPM, counted in thirty-second notes. It is written out above, and it covers 38.5% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 6-8, 10-12, 14-15 and 18-19, and 8 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 5 times over the song.
20 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.