The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-27, 42-48 and 50-56, and 1 more place -- 35.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
It is played on hi-hat and snare, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 9 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is how often it moves around the kit.
The whole song is 42 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 58 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 58, 67 and 77 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 and snare, in 4/4 at 77 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 35.2% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 13-27, 42-48, 50-56 and 75-82. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 9 times over the song.
9 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.