The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 15-20 and 24-29, and 11 more places -- 45% 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 thirty-second notes. On its own it scores 30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- and the thing that decides that is how fine the subdivision is.
The whole song is 51 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 45 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 45, 53 and 60 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 crash, hi-hat, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 60 BPM, counted in thirty-second notes. It is written out above, and it covers 45% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 5-11, 15-20, 24-29 and 32-38, and 10 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 6 times over the song.
30 out of 100 on its own -- a fair first song. The song as a whole is 51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.