In fact, sound waves travel over 17 times faster through steel than through air. Sound waves travel over four times faster in water than it would in air.

Of the three phases of matter (gas, liquid, and solid), sound waves travel the slowest through gases, faster through liquids, and fastest through solids. Let’s find out why. Sound moves slowest through a gas. That’s because the molecules in a gas are spaced very far apart.

Air is made up of particles, that move to make the sound waves. The vibrating object, like your vocal chords, bump the air particles next to it. Most of the sounds we hear travel through the air, but sound waves can also move through water, wood, and metal. You can test this out for yourself.

While sound moves at a much faster speed in the water than in air , the distance that sound waves travel is primarily dependent upon ocean temperature and pressure. This causes the speed of sound to increase and makes the sound waves refract upward.

When two or more sound waves occupy the same space, they affect one another. The waves do not bounce off of each, but they move through each other.

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A melody is a series of notes Most melodies have a lot more than that – for example, Happy Birthday is a super easy melody to learn and sing, and it’s 25 notes long! That being said a melody can have very few pitches of notes and still be classed as a melody. Depsite its name, the head of the song only has two pitches.

You usually create a harmony that has three parts. The middle part is called the melody. There are also the upper part and the lower part. You can best practice the 3-part Harmony by creating three samples of vocal lines. Of course, the middle sample is the melody.