The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-15, 21-27 and 29-36, and 11 more places -- 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 thirty-second notes. On its own it scores 20 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is how fine the subdivision is.
The whole song is 46 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 56 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 56, 65 and 74 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 3/4 at 74 BPM, counted in thirty-second notes. It is written out above, and it covers 36.9% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 12-15, 21-27, 29-36 and 77-83, and 10 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 11 times over the song.
20 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.