We were lucky to catch up with Mr. Hi-Hatz recently and have shared our conversation below.

Mr., looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. What’s the kindest thing anyone has ever done for you?

So, it was around sophomore going into junior year of high school and at this time I was fully committed to music producing. At the time, I didn’t really have software to make quality tracks and was just using free audio editors, Audacity to be specific.

I’m working on track and and I suddenly get a call from my friend Anthony. We’ve been discussing music and keeping tabs prior before this. So, as we’re just catching up he raised the question “Hey, what DAW do you use?”

I’m obviously like “what is that?” because I’m fresh to everything and he starts naming them off “FL? Ableton?” and then it suddenly clicked in my head.

“Oh! none of them”, I said. “Huh…” that’s was all he said as a response. So, after we finally got off the phone a couple of days have passed and he calls again.

“Hey Ty, you still don’t have any software?” “Not at the moment, no.”, I said. He tells me to open my email and says “You’re welcome.”

Confused I open up my email and what I found was that he sent me a link for A full access pass for Ableton music software. I’m every emotion, mostly happy, the fact I didn’t ask for anything and he decided to just give it away for free was a real shock factor.

I thank him everyday for doing that because I wouldn’t have gotten my start with making music and I probably wouldn’t have been this far in my career. It also boost my drive to keep learning and pursuing my workflow, it was a really big turning point for me.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers

I’m 24 from the State of Connecticut. Besides music, I’m also a photographer and videographer on my free time.

I’m a real car nerd, mainly into drifting and rally racing. I try to bring that likeness into my music because it’s a way to myself outside of the music world. I’m into Japanese cars, but my most favorite is a Mazda Miata. If you couldn’t tell, my music covers explains that a lot.

I’m also the head of my music group called “Last Universe” we’re small collective of friends that became friends through music. We all met in high school and all are on separate missions to get our name out into the music industry.

I was always surrounded by music at young age and found myself leaning towards the sound design of musical pieces rather than the lyrics. I feel like that where it all kind of started.

My brother, when he was pursuing his music path, would always want to get me to write my own lyrics and rap, but I never wanted to. I always love the sound of the drums and kicks and hihats. There would be times that I would just play instrumentals that he was rapping over play for hours because I just love beats.

How can we best help foster a strong, supportive environment for artists and creatives?

Just that. Support.

There’s so many ways in this day in age to support an artist and it could cost $0. You could share their links on social media, send it through messages, send it to friends and those friends send it to their friends.

Streaming platforms are also something you would want to familiarize yourself with as well, a big market for that.

How did you build your audience on social media?

At first, I was just posting memes with an absurd amount of hashtag, not going to lie, and from there I was get a couple followers and on daily basis. I just thought to myself “what if I started posting my work on here?” And then after that, I felt like I was started to be taken more seriously rather than just having comedy posts.

It’s weird because while I was taking this drastic turn of being a meme account to a producer I was also learning the algorithm of my social media platforms. When to post, what to post, who’s seeing, etc.

My advice? Learn the audience, learning the algorithm.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/does.it.please.you/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/doesitpleaseyou
• Other: https://m.soundcloud.com/mrhihatz