The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 13 and 15-19, and 10 more places -- 84.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
It is played on snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 22 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is how many notes a second it asks for.
The whole song is 32 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 77 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 77, 89 and 102 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, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot, in 4/4 at 102 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 84.3% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 5-11, 13, 15-19 and 21-27, and 9 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 1 time over the song.
22 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it.