The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 21-23, and 1 more place -- 21.8% 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 44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- and the thing that decides that is the speed of the hand keeping time.
The whole song is 46 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 80 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 80, 94 and 107 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 107 BPM, counted in thirty-second notes. It is written out above, and it covers 21.8% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 9-11, 13-15, 21-23 and 25-27. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 5 times over the song.
44 out of 100 on its own -- a fair first song. The song as a whole is 46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.