The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 23-38, 41-57 and 75-90 -- 60.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
It is played on crash, ride, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 10 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is how often it moves around the kit.
The whole song is 28 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 2-bar phrase on crash, ride, snare and kick, in 3/4 at 140 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 60.5% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 23-38, 41-57 and 75-90. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 7 times over the song.
10 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 28 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.