The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 47-55 -- 42.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
It is played on ride, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 10 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is the speed of the hand keeping time.
The whole song is 13 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 60 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 60, 70 and 80 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 ride, snare and kick, in 3/4 at 80 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 42.9% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 47-55. The time is kept on the ride to start with, and it changes 8 times over the song.
10 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 13 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet.