The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-29, 31-35 and 37-39, and 8 more places -- 53.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
It is played on floor tom and kick, counted in thirty-second notes. On its own it scores 16 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is how much of it falls off the beat.
The whole song is 34 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 94 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 94, 109 and 125 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 2-bar phrase on floor tom and kick, in 4/4 at 125 BPM, counted in thirty-second notes. It is written out above, and it covers 53.5% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 25-29, 31-35, 37-39 and 61-65, and 7 more places. The time is kept on the kick and crashes to start with, and it changes 8 times over the song.
16 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.