The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-17, 22 and 45, and 18 more places -- 44.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
It is played on crash and kick, counted in thirty-second notes. On its own it scores 6 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is how fine the subdivision is.
The whole song is 50 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 90 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 90, 105 and 120 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 and kick, in 4/4 at 120 BPM, counted in thirty-second notes. It is written out above, and it covers 44.3% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 14-17, 22, 45 and 47, and 17 more places. The time is kept on the hi-hat to start with, and it changes 18 times over the song.
6 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.