The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-7, 9-10 and 13-15, and 7 more places -- 18.5% 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 hi-hat, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 55 out of 100 -- a step up -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.
The whole song is 60 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 130 BPM, and adds the notes back a rung at a time -- 4 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 130, 153, 177 and 200 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 hi-hat, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 200 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 18.5% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 5-7, 9-10, 13-15 and 17-19, and 6 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 10 times over the song.
55 out of 100 on its own -- a step up. The song as a whole is 60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.