The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-3, 9-15 and 35-43, and 6 more places -- 54.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
It is played on crash, ride, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.
The whole song is 43 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 135 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 135, 158 and 180 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 2-bar phrase on crash, ride, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 180 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 54.2% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 1-3, 9-15, 35-43 and 45-53, and 5 more places. The time is kept on the kick and crashes to start with, and it changes 22 times over the song.
32 out of 100 on its own -- a fair first song. The song as a whole is 43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.