The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 15 more places -- 61.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
It is played on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 12 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is how often it moves around the kit.
The whole song is 41 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 68 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 68, 79 and 90 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 crash, hi-hat, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 90 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 61.7% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 9-11, 13-15, 17-19 and 21-23, and 14 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 8 times over the song.
12 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.