The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-9, 14-21 and 38-45, and 2 more places -- 41.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
It is played on snare, kick and hi-hat foot, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 22 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.
The whole song is 30 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 108 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 108, 126 and 144 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, kick and hi-hat foot, in 4/4 at 144 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 41.7% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 2-9, 14-21, 38-45 and 62-69, and 1 more place. The time is kept on the snare to start with, and it changes 4 times over the song.
22 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.