The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 7, 9-23 and 31, and 16 more places -- 45.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
It is played on crash, hi-hat, 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 speed of the hand keeping time.
The whole song is 44 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 117 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 117, 137 and 156 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, hi-hat, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 156 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 45.8% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 7, 9-23, 31 and 33-35, and 15 more places. The time is kept on the hi-hat to start with, and it changes 4 times over the song.
32 out of 100 on its own -- a fair first song. The song as a whole is 44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.