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Yeah, that sounds right but your terminology needs more work. Long story short, break it down and go slower.
The motion is a dance and you need to learn the steps for each hand. The other thing is that you need to be able to audiate triplets and really be able to feel them and every partition within the triplet.
You might need to work backwards and practice playing and audiating triplets to a metronome. Good shuffles of that family demand really clean triplets.
Separate the hands, don't try to do them at the same time if theyre not coordinating right.
The right hand (arm, wrist, however you're orchestrating it) is doing the shuffle. When you do a downstroke to start the shuffle. There's a potential for a free upstroke so there should be an idea of motion efficiency and getting strokes for free without any wasted energy. If you're trying to hammer out the shuffle and you feel like you have to work to get all the notes, you're doing it wrong. Atleast for now imo.
The left hand is filling in the second partition of the triplet. Utilize the tap stroke for this. Put a metronome at like 60, count triplets outloud and try to just play that middle triplet. 1 + a, 2 + a, so on.
After that you put them together, slowly, and then build the tempo.
Thanks for the advice!! I'm getting there, slowly but surely! I've been kinda lazy with the terminology for sure, I should probably start grinding that part in before I build (more) bad habits.
I hope it's helpful! Feel free to DM me if you need help working out terminology.