The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-30, 38-39 and 46-47, and 19 more places -- 49% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
It is played on snare, floor tom and kick, counted in thirty-second notes. On its own it scores 21 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is how many limbs land on the same note.
The whole song is 40 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 98 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 98, 114 and 130 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, floor tom and kick, in 4/4 at 130 BPM, counted in thirty-second notes. It is written out above, and it covers 49% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 4-30, 38-39, 46-47 and 50-51, and 18 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 1 time over the song.
21 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many limbs land on the same note the part that decides it.