The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 19-21, 23-24 and 35-37, and 3 more places -- 17.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
It is played on crash, ride, snare and kick, counted in thirty-second notes. On its own it scores 91 out of 100 -- hard -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.
The whole song is 99 out of 100, so the beat is most of what the song asks for. Get it clean and the rest follows.
A part this hard is not learned by playing it slowly and hoping. The room opens it on its simplest reduction -- the timekeeper alone, at 83 BPM -- and adds the notes back over 5 rungs, each with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.
Tempo goes 83, 99, 116, 133 and 150 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 2-bar phrase on crash, ride, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 150 BPM, counted in thirty-second notes. It is written out above, and it covers 17.6% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 19-21, 23-24, 35-37 and 39-40, and 2 more places. The time is kept on the kick and crashes to start with, and it changes 7 times over the song.
91 out of 100 on its own -- hard. The song as a whole is 99 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.