What Was I Made For? is the prototypical tune from Billie Eilish. However, the underpinnings show incredible musicality and restraint. Billie Eilish and her brother/writing partner FINNEAS created a very intimate song. I especially like Eilish’s choice of a delicate, breathy falsetto. She explains and demonstrates how she arrived at the Oscar-winning vocal line in this video.

The piece worked very easily into an arrangement for fingerstyle guitar, with basic (but clever) chord progressions. Billie Eilish does a slick vocal run in 2nd chorus. I was incorporating that, but then spun it into a little Americana riff off of the G position.

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(some other Billie Eilish arrangements)

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How to play What Was I Made For? | fingerstyle guitar

The guitar tab for this piece is beautifully written across 2 pages. I think it’s great for beginner and intermediate guitar players. Enjoy! The guitar tab is available below:

My song structure looks like this, in accordance with the guitar tab:

Verse 2x, Chorus

Verse 1x, Chorus

**Billie Eilish: What Was I Made For? (Barbie) | fingerstyle guitar

The song is played in standard tuning.