The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-52, 57-78 and 81-83, and 7 more places -- 56.4% 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, mid tom and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 22 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is how many limbs land on the same note.
The whole song is 39 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 109 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 109, 127 and 145 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, mid tom and kick, in 4/4 at 145 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 56.4% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 41-52, 57-78, 81-83 and 85-94, and 6 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 14 times over the song.
22 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.