FINNEAS has got his sister and creative collaborator Billie Eilish started with a studio set-up so she can continue developing her production skills – but he’s purposely left it pretty basic.

FINNEAS has produced for Eilish for the entirety of her career, famously helming her debut album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? from their bedroom.

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Now, he’s revealed that he’s giving her the tools to develop her own production talents, but he’s kept it simple for the moment.

“I’ve been setting up Billie’s recording studio for her so she can do home production without me, because she’s very good at it!” he tells Guitar.com. “And it’s funny, I’ve been giving her, like, the bare minimum of stuff, just so that she learns it all. Y’know what I mean? I’m like ‘Listen, I could give you all the stuff that I use now, but it took me years to even have a use for it. And, if I give you this basic thing, it’ll make sense to you right away.’”

Finneas previously revealed that he taught Eilish to comp vocals so she could record alone while making her recent album Hit Me Hard And Soft. 

“She has such a good ear and I’m just a puppet when it comes to comping her vocals because she’s so meticulous,” he says. “And I can comp a vocal, no prob, I’m doing it forever. But she got better and better at knowing like, ‘I like this take and I like this word from this, taking like this word’.”

“And so I was just like, well, let me teach you how to do this. It’s not that hard. And so I taught her how to record herself and how to comp herself.”

“[Sometimes] I’d get a call to come downstairs, she’s like ‘something’s wrong come downstairs and fix it’,” he continues, “but one of the reasons I did it is because I’ve always recorded alone and there’s stuff that I am just not brave enough to do in front of somebody else. It’s like I know I’m her brother but…”

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