The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-87, 89-91 and 93-144, and 2 more places -- 87.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
It is played on hi-hat, snare and kick, counted in thirty-second notes. On its own it scores 53 out of 100 -- a step up -- and the thing that decides that is how much of it falls off the beat.
The whole song is 64 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 78 BPM, and adds the notes back a rung at a time -- 4 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 78, 92, 106 and 120 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 120 BPM, counted in thirty-second notes. It is written out above, and it covers 87.5% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 9-87, 89-91, 93-144 and 146-148, and 1 more place. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 3 times over the song.
53 out of 100 on its own -- a step up. The song as a whole is 64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.