The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-8, 13-16 and 21-28, and 6 more places -- 63.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
It is played on ride, snare and kick, counted in thirty-second notes. On its own it scores 23 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is how fine the subdivision is.
The whole song is 46 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 83 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 83, 96 and 110 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, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 110 BPM, counted in thirty-second notes. It is written out above, and it covers 63.8% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 5-8, 13-16, 21-28 and 31, and 5 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 14 times over the song.
23 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.