The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-31, 33-61 and 64-83, and 1 more place -- 76.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
It is played on the kick, counted in thirty-second notes. On its own it scores 1 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is how fine the subdivision is.
The whole song is 35 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 101 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 101, 118 and 135 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 kick, in 4/4 at 135 BPM, counted in thirty-second notes. It is written out above, and it covers 76.1% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 18-31, 33-61, 64-83 and 86-89. The time is kept on the kick and crashes to start with, and it changes 6 times over the song.
1 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how fine the subdivision is the part that decides it.