The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-32, 49-64 and 129-144 -- 36.9% 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 independence between the hands and the feet.
The whole song is 35 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 68 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 68, 79 and 90 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 90 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 36.9% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 17-32, 49-64 and 129-144. The time is kept on the ride to start with, and it changes 6 times over the song.
10 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.