The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-28, 31-34 and 45-52, and 3 more places -- 96.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
It is played on hi-hat, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 36 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 39 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 116 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 116, 136 and 155 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 2-bar phrase on hi-hat, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 155 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 96.5% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 5-28, 31-34, 45-52 and 55-76, and 2 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 10 times over the song.
36 out of 100 on its own -- a fair first song. The song as a whole is 39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.