Samba De Arcata

Donnie Rankin plays Samba De Arcata. Originally composed by Ray Holman at the 1993 World Percussion Workshop in Arcata California, this particular recording is a reduction of Khris Dodge's steel band arrangement through Panyard. Yes the song does end on a Daug chord :)

About the instruments.

The organ used was a recently collected, Conn Tampico, connected to a Conn 255 Leslie cabinet with two sets of 145 Symmetrical and one model 146 pipe speakers.

The drumset is a 5 piece Peace drumset (in four piece mode) with a Pearl Export Select snare wearing Remo heads. Cymbals used are Zildjian ZBTs and a Wuhan China and Splash.

About the recording.

Video and audio were recorded for both parts in real time, as played by Donnie.

The drum track was recorded first using a Canon Vixia HF20 camcorder and Zoom H2 audio recorder. The percussion track was processed and then the organs audio was recorded following the same technique used for the percussion track. Several other takes of the song were recorded using the video camera at alternate angles. (Hence an occasional continuity error.)

Audio tracks were pieced together and processed using Adobe Audition. Video was assembled in Premiere Pro.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Donnie Rankin
• Conn
• American
• Theatre
• Organ
• Society
• Pearl
• Zildjian
• Jazz
• Pipe
• Hammond
• California
• Steel
• Drum
• Pan
• Panyard
• Canon
• Vixia
• Tampico
• DR4 Productions
• Samba
• Latin
• Wuhan
• Remo
• Vic Firth

[The2010SnowDay]

Interesting organ! I am looking into buying a similar one, and I was wondering if it uses tubes, if the pedals are polyphonic or not, and if there is any built in rhythm.

[Dojora4]

@The2010SnowDay This Conn is a fairly late model... This is a fully transistorized model, and I think the pedals are Polyphonic only outside of an octave (like most Conn Organs) and this organ does indeed have the built in rhythm!

[oddrocketboy2]

fun fun!

your home organ sounds different than mine...

[Dojora4]

Considerably different!

[Royalorgans]

Put up more videos of you playing this organ.

[Royalorgans]

This organ sound great. It needs to be tuned then you will rock the house out. The way to tune the organ is to open the back and get a keyboard and turn the knobs until its intune with the keyboard. Any cheap in tune keyboard would do.

[Organsk8er]

COOL! :-D

[Royalorgans]

I like this organ, If you want the most out of the sound. Hook and external leslie to it. It would sound better than a hammond in some ways.

[Karlfalcon]

Conns are sorely under-appreciated these days. Sounds great!

[drfuzzy23]

I played this song with Ray Holman back when I played with the Cal State Long Beach pan band. I remember a dude always playing the organ in the mall back when I was a kid. That's what this reminds me of

[Guvnor6L6]

Thanks for the post- great material. And, your recent performance at the Hedback Theatre in Indianapolis

was outstanding.

Best regards

[AnnaMarRan]

Great job!