The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-24, 41-60 and 85-104 -- 56.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
It is played on mid tom and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 0 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is how many limbs land on the same note.
The whole song is 27 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 93 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 93, 109 and 124 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 mid tom and kick, in 4/4 at 124 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 56.6% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 5-24, 41-60 and 85-104. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 13 times over the song.
0 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 27 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.