The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-26, 29-41 and 57, and 9 more places -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
It is played on snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 19 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.
The whole song is 37 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 87 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 87, 102 and 116 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 snare and kick, in 4/4 at 116 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 50% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 22-26, 29-41, 57 and 60-64, and 8 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 10 times over the song.
19 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.