The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-8, 51-66 and 70-100, and 4 more places -- 71.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
It is played on hi-hat and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 50 out of 100 -- a step up -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.
The whole song is 58 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 169 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 169, 197 and 225 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 and kick, in 3/4 at 225 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 71.2% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 1-8, 51-66, 70-100 and 108-164, and 3 more places. The time is kept on the hi-hat to start with, and it changes 9 times over the song.
50 out of 100 on its own -- a step up. The song as a whole is 58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.