This tutorial is for the assignment Character Bird Calls. You can read my blog post about what I did for this assignment here.

1. The first step is to plan. You need to decide who you are going to call. Why this person? What sounds could you use to call or attract this person?

2. Once you have all of that down, you are ready to roll! I found Freesound.org the most helpful for downloading my sounds. {But if you have another website you favor, you can use that one too} Search for your sounds and click the download button to download them onto your computer/flashdrive.

3. After downloading the sounds, import them into Audacity. You can import your songs by clicking Project > Import Audio.

4. Now that you have a sound clip in there, you can cut it to make it shorter. In order to do this, you need highlight the section that you do NOT want and click the backspace key.

5. To import another sound, repeat step 3. Each sound will appear on it’s on track line.

6. If you do not want your sounds overlapping, you can use the time tool found at the top and move each track in the order you want it to sound.

7. Once you are done, save it as an MP3 file!! This is very important! Click File > Export as MP3

{By saving it as MP3, you can upload it to SoundCloud easily}

TIPS:

• Make sure that after uploading it to SoundCloud you embed it into your blog post!
• DON’T forget to add the assignment tags. If you forget these, you will not get any credit for all of your hard work!!!
• Write about why you chose these specific sounds and why they form a story!