The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-20 and 42-48 -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
It is played on floor tom and kick, counted in thirty-second notes. On its own it scores 7 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is how fine the subdivision is.
The whole song is 52 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 71 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 71, 83 and 95 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 floor tom and kick, in 4/4 at 95 BPM, counted in thirty-second notes. It is written out above, and it covers 20% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 14-20 and 42-48. The time is kept on the kick and crashes to start with, and it changes 6 times over the song.
7 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.