The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-8, 14-20 and 23, and 9 more places -- 74.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
It is played on hi-hat, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 44 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 52 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 87 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 87, 102 and 116 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 hi-hat, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 116 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 74.5% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 5-8, 14-20, 23 and 25-32, and 8 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 5 times over the song.
44 out of 100 on its own -- a fair first song. The song as a whole is 52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.