I’m OK with the rhythm is changing strings (chords) that’s the issue as it comes an odd point. It comes between ah and 2 which is a small gap so end up with either 7 or 9 notes in the bar as trying to anticipate the change. This is going to take some time.
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I find putting the accents on Beats two and four a little unnatural. I want to put them on beats one and three. I wonder if others have this issue.
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John @Kanjo
I know what you mean, I think as beat one is often the start of a new chord there is a tendency make that stand out. But like all things with the guitar it takes practice.
By the way welcome to the community 
Michael
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I just started to practice shuffle strumming and took advice of Justin to listen and just strum along to the beat of various blues songs.
So far I find the shuffle strum using two downstrokes is more suited to slower beat songs (for myself anyways). I find it hard to get in a groove using downstrokes only for faster songs.
I expect the response will be that there are no general rules and 2 downstroke shuffle strums work for both slow and fast blues songs.
Please provide some examples of faster blues songs using 2 downstrokes if you have them.
Thanks in advance.
Attila
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Justin’s explanation of the Shuffle Rhythm reminds me of my paramedic days and heartbeat rhythms. They divided the typical rhythm patterns into 3 categories: Regular: your ‘normal’ rhythm which doesn’t change and is even, so like the strumming patterns we’ve learned so far.
Next group was called Regularly-Irregular. The beats are not evenly spaced, but they are in a pattern that repeats. This would be like bum-ba-dum, bum-ba-dum vs bum-bum-bum. This reminds me of this Shuffle Rhythm.
The last group was called Irregularly-Irregular, which was more or less random beats. That was bad.
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