The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-23 and 26-39 -- 55.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
It is played on crash and snare, counted in thirty-second notes. On its own it scores 26 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 38 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 98 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 98, 114 and 130 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 crash and snare, in 4/4 at 130 BPM, counted in thirty-second notes. It is written out above, and it covers 55.4% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 2-23 and 26-39. The time is kept on the snare to start with, and it changes 2 times over the song.
26 out of 100 on its own -- a fair first song. The song as a whole is 38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it.