The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16, 20 and 22, and 28 more places -- 29.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
It is played on snare, high tom, mid tom and floor tom, counted in thirty-second notes. On its own it scores 49 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 54 out of 100, so the beat is most of what the song asks for. Get it clean and the rest follows.
The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 83 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 83, 96 and 110 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 snare, high tom, mid tom and floor tom, in 4/4 at 110 BPM, counted in thirty-second notes. It is written out above, and it covers 29.8% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 16, 20, 22 and 24, and 27 more places. The time is kept on the snare to start with, and it changes 9 times over the song.
49 out of 100 on its own -- a step up. The song as a whole is 54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.