The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 61-67, 69-71 and 73-75, and 12 more places -- 23% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
It is played on hi-hat, snare and kick, counted in thirty-second notes. On its own it scores 28 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.
The whole song is 42 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 90 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 90, 105 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 2-bar phrase on hi-hat, snare and kick, in 3/4 at 120 BPM, counted in thirty-second notes. It is written out above, and it covers 23% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 61-67, 69-71, 73-75 and 77-79, and 11 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 26 times over the song.
28 out of 100 on its own -- a fair first song. The song as a whole is 42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.