The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-10, 28-32 and 34-36, and 6 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 ride, snare, kick and hi-hat foot, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 25 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- and the thing that decides that is how many notes a second it asks for.
The whole song is 45 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 66 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 66, 77 and 88 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, snare, kick and hi-hat foot, in 4/4 at 88 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 45.8% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 2-10, 28-32, 34-36 and 46-50, and 5 more places. The time is kept on the snare to start with, and it changes 7 times over the song.
25 out of 100 on its own -- a fair first song. The song as a whole is 45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit.