The long–short dotted feel on notes you already know. Tap it first — LONG, short, LONG,
short — before you look at the pitches. Then say, air-bow, play, reveal.
1 · Dotted quarter + eighth
62 bpm
Dotted quarter, eighth, half — twice. The dotted note holds from '1' to the '&'; the eighth pops out; then the half note takes beats 3 and 4.
2 · Dotted rhythm through a phrase
62 bpm
Two plain quarters, then dotted-quarter–eighth on beats 3–4; then another dotted figure on beats 1–2 of the next bar. Keep the limp consistent.
3 · Dotted eighth + sixteenth
58 bpm
Faster dotted figures — dotted-eighth then sixteenth on beats 1 and 2, then two quarters, then a held E. The sixteenth is short and precise, not a lazy triplet.
If it comes out even
Slow right down and exaggerate: hold the long note a fraction longer, clip the short one a
fraction shorter — then settle it back to exact. Say the count with the "&" in it out loud so
the eighth lands on the off-beat, not on the next beat.