The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 25-31, and 34 more places -- 48.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
It is played on crash, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.
The whole song is 50 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 135 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 135, 158 and 180 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 crash, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 180 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 48.1% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 9-15, 17-23, 25-31 and 41, and 33 more places. The time is kept on the hi-hat to start with, and it changes 11 times over the song.
34 out of 100 on its own -- a fair first song. The song as a whole is 50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.