The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24-28, 42-47 and 59-64, and 8 more places -- 23.4% 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 hi-hat, snare and kick, counted in thirty-second notes. On its own it scores 53 out of 100 -- a step up -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.
The whole song is 44 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 thirty-second notes. It is written out above, and it covers 23.4% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 24-28, 42-47, 59-64 and 75-80, and 7 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 20 times over the song.
53 out of 100 on its own -- a step up. The song as a whole is 44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how fine the subdivision is the part that decides it.