The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 51 more places -- 47% 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 sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 53 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 61 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 65 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 65, 77, 88 and 100 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 100 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 47% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 2, 4, 6 and 8, and 50 more places. The time is kept on the hi-hat to start with, and it changes 2 times over the song.
53 out of 100 on its own -- a step up. The song as a whole is 61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.