The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 55, 58-72 and 79-80, and 9 more places -- 24.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
It is played on crash, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 12 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.
The whole song is 36 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 110 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 110, 128 and 146 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 146 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 24.5% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 55, 58-72, 79-80 and 82-84, and 8 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 21 times over the song.
12 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.