The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 21-44 and 69-91 -- 53.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
It is played on snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 40 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 44 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 105 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 105, 123 and 140 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 2-bar phrase on snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick, in 4/4 at 140 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 53.4% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 21-44 and 69-91. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 3 times over the song.
40 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.