The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-36, 38 and 40, and 14 more places -- 50% 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 the speed of the hand keeping time.
The whole song is 40 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 86 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 86, 101 and 115 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 115 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 50% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 5-36, 38, 40 and 42, and 13 more places. The time is kept on the toms to start with, and it changes 4 times over the song.
9 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.