Featured Guest Post: Sit Kitty Sit
- unlimiteddanceshoe
- Mar 10, 2015
- 2 min read
Featured Guest Post: SIT KITTY SIT
At Got Your Head in the Clouds, we like to get inside of an artist's mind. These formative questions help bring insight to an artist's music and often adds an element of surprise. In today's Featured Guest post we have San Francisco rock duo, Sit Kitty Sit.
Sit Kitty Sit “Birmingham”
The instrumentation of Sit Kitty Sit is very unique, especially in this day and age. With the combination of piano, drums and vocals alone you create a sound that is just as in-your-face than if there were guitar and bass involved. How do you make sure that, with the subtraction of guitar and bass, that the drums and piano are recognized with such force? How have you managed to adjust this into a live setting?
The piano is such a dynamic instrument with such a broad range that it easily fills the spaces of both guitar and bass. The bass guitar part is covered by my left hand, and the guitar or melody part by my right. Stylistically in some cases the piano uses a wider range of bass than a bass guitar line would. Traditional bass guitar lines are played a single note at a time where a piano would play full chords and octaves. This can make the bottom sound even bigger on a piano. Some say I'm notorious for my monstrous left-hand action, haha. Truthfully, I've always played left-heavy which really fills out the bottom end of the songs while the combination of my vocals and right hand action simultaneously fill the mid and higher registers.
To complete the grand picture, Mike's extraordinarily musical ear translates beautifully to his attack on the drum kit. He creates his drum parts considering the piano parts and vocal lines equally, so it’s common for him to accent not just my rhythm but to also add decorative fills complimenting my vocal melody using the drum kit as a full symphonic instrument rather than just a time-keeping device. This, in turn, results in the purposeful chaos that is Sit Kitty Sit music :)
Using only our intuitively honed performance techniques, our sound transfers flawlessly to a live show setting. Actually, we have a more difficult time capturing the energy of our live show performances on our studio recordings... I think it may be time to release a Live Record! ;)
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