Favorite Sims 3 Music Genre?

I would like to say custom, but the truth is I don't rip my music using the supported format (all my music is WMA Lossless). Anyway, I'm really just starting to play again after taking an extended break. I can't remember exactly which genre it is, but one of them has what is clearly Garbage's Not Your Kind of People in the rotation. They're one of my top three bands, so...

I was seriously thinking about getting an MP3 of this and throwing it into my Custom Music folder, so my "classical-music loving" sim could listen to it.

https://youtu.be/2lDIhd001Wc
JS Bach, English Suites (Complete) on harpischord
Note that this is over 2hrs of real-time music...thrown onto one Sims Radio Station. I'm surprised my game hasn't crashed yet.

@Nikkei_Simmer That's such lovely music. I like the classical station in TS3 fine, though it does tend to get repetitive. But I think I could listen to that harpsichord for days. It brings back such great memories—my piano teacher had one, and every week I would do whatever I could think of to convince him to play it. It's funny to think how most of Bach's "piano" pieces were actually written for the harpsichord (or occasionally the organ), as pianos didn't show up until late in his life, and yet we're so used to hearing them on the piano that anything else sounds foreign.

@puzzleaddict If I ever win the lottery, I'm buying a 9' Concert Grand and a harpsichord. In RL I got up to Gr. 10 RCM (Royal Conservatory of Music); just short of getting my teacher's certificate (ARCT). I've always loved the harpsichord, but I'm definitely not coordinated enough to play the pipe organ, I'd have to be an octopus to try and play the pedals and the keyboard at the same time. :D

@Nikkei_Simmer Wow, I'm impressed. I got just far enough in piano to realize that I didn't have any actual talent, or rather, for my mom to realize it and let me do other stuff instead. I never lost my appreciation for the people with real skill, though, and stayed around the periphery (chorus, music theory, etc.) throughout high school. But I don't think I knew anyone who could have played the organ properly. The few who can are probably just built differently than everyone else (maybe literally). One friend of mine was almost good enough to be a proper accompanist even then, so I found some Rachmaninoff sheet music and asked if he could play it. He thought he was doing okay and getting the hang of it... until I pointed out that he was only playing the right hand part.

If you ever do buy those instruments, I bet you'd host the best parties. Who needs a DJ and a smoke machine when you have a real musician with a couple of proper toys to play with?

@puzzleaddict, I haven't played for 26 years (I quit piano at age 22), so it will take a while for me to get my "aged and stiff" fingers back to the flexibility to play at that level again. :) The plus side is that with age, the motivation is there and I can practically remember all the drilling that my teacher drove into me in terms of practice technique and understand the reasoning behind the drilling and can pretty much get myself to that point through practice. Back then during the 70s and 80s, we didn't have online videos let alone the internet like we do now, so now I can always look up something on Youtube with regards to pedagogical piano technique if I am having a bit of a problem with a certain bit of technique such as how to attack a mordent which is prevalent in baroque music (which is the genre of music that I just absolutely love). As I said to @emorrill, I used to play Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier Prelude and Fugue in D Major, BWV 850.

My teacher wanted me to go at the speed that this recording went at: Stanislav Richter plays this recording.

https://youtu.be/K_85VWhfSRA

Let's just say, I got to about 85% of that speed.

@Nikkei_Simmer You know, if that piece weren't so pleasant to listen to, I'd wonder if it had been written by an exasperated teacher with a particularly arrogant student who needed to be taken down a peg or two.

It is amazing how the drilling sticks with you even after years of neglect. I can barely play the piano after dropping it at age 10, but I never forgot how to sight-read, and when I took music theory, all the scales and chords came right back. Even now, I can listen to a piece and figure out most of what's going on if I concentrate. Unless it's at the speed of that recording. Then I've got nothing.

"puzzlezaddict;c-16288323" wrote:
@Nikkei_Simmer You know, if that piece weren't so pleasant to listen to, I'd wonder if it had been written by an exasperated teacher with a particularly arrogant student who needed to be taken down a peg or two.

As a matter of fact, I think Bach did have students and it is not beyond the realm of possibility that what you're suggesting was the case. :D

@Nikkei_Simmer He probably had a lot of students, as so many talented but woefully underpaid teachers do. More importantly, though, didn't he have 18 kids or something? Imagine getting stuck with that babysitting job. And if I remember correctly, one or two of them thought that they were legitimate musicians and composers in their own right, so I'm sure they gave their dad near constant headaches. Okay, son, you think you're such hot stuff? Try this on for size. And for every note you get wrong, you have to run a lap around the pipe organ.

My favorites aren't on the list, Disco and Rockabilly. I can't quite remember if it's Beach Party or Island Life that would be my 3rd choice but I'll go with Beach Party.