The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 16 more places -- 38% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
It is played on snare, mid tom and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 29 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 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 126 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 126, 147 and 168 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 snare, mid tom and kick, in 4/4 at 168 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 38% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 9, 11, 13 and 15, and 15 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 10 times over the song.
29 out of 100 on its own -- a fair first song. 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.