The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-31, 45-47 and 49-50, and 5 more places -- 36.8% 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 65 out of 100 -- demanding -- 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 91 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 91, 107, 124 and 140 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 140 BPM, counted in thirty-second notes. It is written out above, and it covers 36.8% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 15-31, 45-47, 49-50 and 66-67, and 4 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 19 times over the song.
65 out of 100 on its own -- demanding. 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.