The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-16, 21-34 and 60-73 -- 34.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
It is played on snare, high tom, mid tom and kick, counted in thirty-second notes. On its own it scores 22 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is how fine the subdivision is.
The whole song is 51 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 snare, high tom, mid tom and kick, in 4/4 at 110 BPM, counted in thirty-second notes. It is written out above, and it covers 34.5% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 5-16, 21-34 and 60-73. The time is kept on the ride to start with, and it changes 7 times over the song.
22 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.