The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-17, 34-53 and 70-84, and 2 more places -- 68.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
It is played on ride and hi-hat, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 27 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- and the thing that decides that is the speed of the hand keeping time.
The whole song is 35 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 89 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 89, 103 and 118 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 ride and hi-hat, in 4/4 at 118 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 68.9% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 10-17, 34-53, 70-84 and 86-97, and 1 more place. The time is kept on the snare to start with, and it changes 6 times over the song.
27 out of 100 on its own -- a fair first song. The song as a whole is 35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the speed of the hand keeping time the part that decides it.