The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-50, 53-54 and 57-63, and 3 more places -- 81.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
It is played on crash and snare, counted in thirty-second notes. On its own it scores 5 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is how fine the subdivision is.
The whole song is 25 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 101 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 101, 117 and 134 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 and snare, in 4/4 at 134 BPM, counted in thirty-second notes. It is written out above, and it covers 81.4% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 1-50, 53-54, 57-63 and 73-74, and 2 more places. The time is kept on the snare to start with, and it changes 3 times over the song.
5 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 25 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how fine the subdivision is the part that decides it.