The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 18-24 and 26, and 12 more places -- 65.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
It is played on ride, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- and the thing that decides that is how many notes a second it asks for.
The whole song is 44 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 104 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 104, 122 and 139 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 4/4 at 139 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 65.2% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 10-16, 18-24, 26 and 28, and 11 more places. The time is kept on the snare to start with, and it changes 5 times over the song.
34 out of 100 on its own -- a fair first song. The song as a whole is 44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.