The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-23, 49-65 and 91-97 -- 42.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
It is played on the ride, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 0 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is the speed of the hand keeping time.
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 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, 82 and 94 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 ride, in 4/4 at 94 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 42.3% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 1-23, 49-65 and 91-97. The time is kept on the ride to start with, and it changes 5 times over the song.
0 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.