The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-43, 45-77 and 82-102, and 1 more place -- 87.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
It is played on hi-hat, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 19 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is the speed of the hand keeping time.
The whole song is 31 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 115 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 115, 134 and 153 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 hi-hat, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 153 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 87.8% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 7-43, 45-77, 82-102 and 110-133. The time is kept on the snare to start with, and it changes 2 times over the song.
19 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 31 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the speed of the hand keeping time the part that decides it.