The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-28, 30-38 and 40-54, and 5 more places -- 71.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
It is played on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 14 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is how often it moves around the kit.
The whole song is 38 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 96 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 96, 112 and 128 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 crash, hi-hat, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 128 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 71.6% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 2-28, 30-38, 40-54 and 56-62, and 4 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 7 times over the song.
14 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.