The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 34-152 and 154-195 -- 82.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
It is played on hi-hat, snare and kick, counted in thirty-second notes. On its own it scores 55 out of 100 -- a step up -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.
The whole song is 63 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 116 BPM, and adds the notes back a rung at a time -- 4 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 116, 136, 157 and 178 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 hi-hat, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 178 BPM, counted in thirty-second notes. It is written out above, and it covers 82.6% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 34-152 and 154-195. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 2 times over the song.
55 out of 100 on its own -- a step up. The song as a whole is 63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.