The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-16 and 27-30 -- 19.2% 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 snare, mid tom and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 27 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 51 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, 118 and 135 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 snare, mid tom and kick, in 4/4 at 135 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 19.2% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 1-16 and 27-30. The time is kept on the toms to start with, and it changes 4 times over the song.
27 out of 100 on its own -- a fair first song. The song as a whole is 51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.