The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 7-12 and 22-24, and 9 more places -- 37.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
It is played on hi-hat, snare and kick, counted in thirty-second notes. On its own it scores 46 out of 100 -- a step up -- and the thing that decides that is how much of it falls off the beat.
The whole song is 60 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 54 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 54, 63 and 72 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 72 BPM, counted in thirty-second notes. It is written out above, and it covers 37.1% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 1-3, 7-12, 22-24 and 28-30, and 8 more places.
46 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 how much of it falls off the beat.