cor, i havnt heard that song in a while!...and its the first time ive lisened to it for the drum beat.
Now, because you've only been playing for a little while, i dont know how much you know. I'll explain everything how i would understand it, but if you dont understand bits of it, just post back saying what you dont understand and ill walk you through that too.
For a start, my guess is that it was played on an electric kit. That makes it more interesting and fun if your playing it on an acoustic because you can play around to get sorta the same sound. I would suggest a cross stick on the snare, and hitting a very tight hihat with the tip of the stick. Then a light bass hit with a felt beater.
The basic beat is quite simple. It's in 4/4 and it goes like so:
Beat 1+3: Bass/kick drum
Beat 2+4: Snare and hihat
On occation (you'll have to remember yourself when it happends in the song), the stick on the snare is picked up, and hit normally on the snare on beats 1+2.
Then on other occations (more often) the cross stick on the snare is tapped almost like "bab-ba ba" starting on beat 4, and ending on beat 2 of the next bar. You will probably find this hard to do at first because you still need to hit the hihat on beat 2 and 4 while doing this, but keep trying and you'll get it.
Again, please feel free to ask more if you dont understand that. Thier was no point me writing all that out if you dont learn from it in the end!
Good Luck
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