The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 12, and 13 more places -- 66.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
It is played on hi-hat, snare, floor tom and hi-hat foot, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.
The whole song is 49 out of 100, so the beat is most of what the song asks for. Get it clean and the rest follows.
The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 66 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 66, 77 and 88 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 hi-hat, snare, floor tom and hi-hat foot, in 4/4 at 88 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 66.7% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 2-4, 6-8, 12 and 16, and 12 more places. The time is kept on the hi-hat to start with, and it changes 14 times over the song.
42 out of 100 on its own -- a fair first song. The song as a whole is 49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.