Here’s a version of “Summer Rain” with harmony and a little reverb added to the verse, the “Ooohs,” and didgeridoo vocals, and reverb and “amp simulation” effect to the verse harmony. Which one do you like better? The original has no effects… other than cupping my hands for the “Ooohs”:

Summer Rain (with harmony and FX)

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Here’s a song I made tonight playing around with GarageBand. It was a poem I wrote last year when I was teaching kids how to write poetry (our theme was “water”) and how to use it to make a dance, but I never used it (I madeand used a less weird one) because I knew they would have probably thought it was dumb. I didn’t think it was dumb. It did just kinda sat in my notebook, though, for the last year unfinished as a sort of snapshot of what I thought it might have been like for my mom (in particular) and dad to find out they were having me, their first child together. I hope you enjoy it and are not wierded out. It sounds best with headphones.

Summer Rain
When my mother’s water
broke before I was born
they knew I’d be a healthy child.
It drained like summer rain
through a clogged house gutter;
warm as a sitting summer pool.
I was to be the first
son for parents hoping,
the firstborn of infant lovers.

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