The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-11 and 15-21, and 6 more places -- 44.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
It is played on snare and kick, counted in thirty-second notes. On its own it scores 23 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.
The whole song is 41 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 105 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 105, 123 and 140 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 snare and kick, in 4/4 at 140 BPM, counted in thirty-second notes. It is written out above, and it covers 44.8% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 1-3, 5-11, 15-21 and 40-42, and 5 more places. The time is kept on the snare to start with, and it changes 7 times over the song.
23 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.