The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 72-73, 76-77 and 80-81, and 3 more places -- 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 crash, snare, floor tom and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 21 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.
The whole song is 29 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 98 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 98, 114 and 130 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 crash, snare, floor tom and kick, in 4/4 at 130 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 20% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 72-73, 76-77, 80-81 and 84-85, and 2 more places. The time is kept on the toms to start with, and it changes 5 times over the song.
21 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 29 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.