The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 21-23, and 25 more places -- 47.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
It is played on floor tom and kick, counted in thirty-second notes. On its own it scores 37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- and the thing that decides that is how much of it falls off the beat.
The whole song is 57 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 floor tom and kick, in 4/4 at 120 BPM, counted in thirty-second notes. It is written out above, and it covers 47.3% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 13-15, 17-19, 21-23 and 25-27, and 24 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 6 times over the song.
37 out of 100 on its own -- a fair first song. The song as a whole is 57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.