Fun Science Sound

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It starts with an idea or an impulse to make a sound,
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And then a message gets sent to my head where my vocal chords are found.


       Bb                     F              C
And they vibrate, and cause the air to vibrate too.
         Bb                     F                    G
Then the air gets shot out of my mouth on its way to you!


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This vibration I've just made travels as a wave,
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But if I vibrated differently then it would cause the wave to change.


          Bb           F                     C
If I sing low then the frequency of the wave drops.
          Bb            F
If I sing high then the frequency is high too.
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And if I sing loud then my micro-phone pops!


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The sound wave travels through the air unless it hits a wall
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Then the higher frequencies get absorbed and the deeper ones pass through


               Bb                F                   C
And that's why when I'm behind a window I sound like this.
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And if the wall is hard the sound bounces back and you can hear an echo!


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The sound is captured by my micro-phone and sorted digitally,
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That was until you play this video and now your speakers are mimicking me


            Bb                  F               C
And now the waves are back and going into your ear.
            Bb                                       G
Only 6 more steps inside your head until you get to hear!


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Sound is touch at a distance,
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When they say that music can touch you, it literally does.


C        G        Bb
Sound is a vi-ber-ation,
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But thanks to modern science we can know that it's shaking our eardrums:


Bb
And the drum then shakes some tiny bones
C
And the bones send vibrations to a liquid
Bb
And the waves in the liquid bend some hairs
C
And the hairs send a signal to the brain
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And it's only when it forms a pattern in your head that you can hear!