The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-16 and 18-24, and 4 more places -- 40.2% 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 thirty-second notes. On its own it scores 17 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is how fine the subdivision is.
The whole song is 49 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 101 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 101, 118 and 135 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 135 BPM, counted in thirty-second notes. It is written out above, and it covers 40.2% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 2-8, 10-16, 18-24 and 34-36, and 3 more places. The time is kept on the toms to start with, and it changes 4 times over the song.
17 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.