The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 15-22, 28-35 and 45-56 -- 36.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
It is played on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 24 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is how many notes a second it asks for.
The whole song is 39 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 2-bar phrase on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick, in 4/4 at 120 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 36.4% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 15-22, 28-35 and 45-56. The time is kept on the snare to start with, and it changes 5 times over the song.
24 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it.