The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 15 and 17, and 17 more places -- 43.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
It is played on the ride, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 22 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is how much of it falls off the beat.
The whole song is 27 out of 100, so the beat is most of what the song asks for. Get it clean and the rest follows.
The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 56 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 56, 66 and 75 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, in 4/4 at 75 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 43.1% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 13, 15, 17 and 19, and 16 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 1 time over the song.
22 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 27 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it.