The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-3, 5 and 7-9, and 20 more places -- 39.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
It is played on hi-hat, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 35 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 39 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 81 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 81, 95 and 108 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 and kick, in 4/4 at 108 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 39.7% of the bars the kit plays.
Bars 2-3, 5, 7-9 and 13, and 19 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 3 times over the song.
35 out of 100 on its own -- a fair first song. The song as a whole is 39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.