The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-34, 36-42 and 44-50, and 11 more places -- 56% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
It is played on hi-hat, snare 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 fine the subdivision is.
The whole song is 49 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 57 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 57, 67 and 76 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 hi-hat, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 76 BPM, counted in thirty-second notes. It is written out above, and it covers 56% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 28-34, 36-42, 44-50 and 52-58, and 10 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 9 times over the song.
21 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.