MUSIC PACK & BANDS PACK, all your ideas (sims 4)

All I want is a keytar with 80s songs. Like “take on me”, “jump” or “don’t you (forget about me)”. Make it a kit, expansion, stuff pack, whatever. I’ve given up on complaining about EA’s macrotransaction policy. Just give me more retro crap and we call it even. Yours, R

This is something that I would LOVE to see:

• writing lyrics, creating a melody, recording, and releasing singles (and albums)
  
• record deals, labels, and managers (good and bad, could be done similarly to acting agencies menu but differently to acting, you would be able to make music without a record deal or manager)
  
• promoting singles (and albums)
  
• music charts (if our song will be in the 1st to 10th place we would be invited to receive an award and perform)
  
• improved followers and also platforms for artists (SimTube, Simsify, etc.)
  
• stage names (similar to The Sims 3 system, optional)
  
• performing in venues (similar to The Sims 3 system where you need to sing for an owner in order to be paid for the performance with an option of regular performances. If we'd have a manager, they would send us messages with opportunities to perform somewhere)
  
• creating concerts and tours (you will need to pay (or your record label if you have one) in order to schedule a concert or an entire concert tour in special venues, depending on how many people bought the tickets and how much money you spent (or how much % your record label took) you will earn a certain amount of money)
  
• new radio station with mixed genres and also a chance for songs created by our Sims to appear in this radio channel
  

I love this suggestion! This is something I've wished would happen for a long time.

I would love to see children and teenagers participating in ensembles too. Band and orchestra would be nice as after-school activities (as a sidenote, after-school activities with various sports or groups would also be cool). Perhaps they could be treated like careers or somehow have a reward for progressing in skill. Teenagers (and Adults?) could form a garage band with friends, and maybe the songwriting system could be comparable in design to Sims writing and publishing their own books.

I'd love to see the addition of orchestral and jazz instruments too! I'd love to place an interactive harp in my Sims' living room or hire a jazz trio or string quartet for an event, and the inclusion of woodwind, brass, strings, and percussion would be great!

I love the concept of career paths branching into classical or popular music. Hopefully, this sort of pack could add that long-awaited upright piano to the game too! Additional build mode items such as music stands, home studio recording/sound engineering equipment, and a record player (and music-related decor/clutter) would be fun! I also really like how @carpe_diem structures proposed Entertainer career adjustments to include freelance or "regular" jobs.

I think this would work very well as a Game Pack, but even a Stuff Pack with more instrument options would be a great start!

"Clarity88;c-17935869" wrote:

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I love this suggestion! This is something I've wished would happen for a long time.

I would love to see children and teenagers participating in ensembles too. Band and orchestra would be nice as after-school activities (as a sidenote, after-school activities with various sports or groups would also be cool). Perhaps they could be treated like careers or somehow have a reward for progressing in skill. Teenagers (and Adults?) could form a garage band with friends, and maybe the songwriting system could be comparable in design to Sims writing and publishing their own books.

I'd love to see the addition of orchestral and jazz instruments too! I'd love to place an interactive harp in my Sims' living room or hire a jazz trio or string quartet for an event, and the inclusion of woodwind, brass, strings, and percussion would be great!

I love the concept of career paths branching into classical or popular music. Hopefully, this sort of pack could add that long-awaited upright piano to the game too! Additional build mode items such as music stands, home studio recording/sound engineering equipment, and a record player (and music-related decor/clutter) would be fun! I also really like how @carpe_diem structures proposed Entertainer career adjustments to include freelance or "regular" jobs.

I think this would work very well as a Game Pack, but even a Stuff Pack with more instrument options would be a great start!

@Clarity88
Yeah I miss the upright piano! Also think they could change the painting career too a freelance career, that would make more sense and give more gameplay to it (there was no freelance careers back in 2014). They could merge gig for painting, sculpturing, pot making, etc. Maybe things like Go to this rich and creepy old man's house and paint his portait or paint Mr. Crumplebottom at the river in willow creek or Make a sculpture off this crazy cat lad's beloved cat.

It's a very fun idea with the option to hire a string quartet / jazz trio / band! Maybe you could hire one of the bands in your save file to a wedding / birthday party, that wouold be awesome! :)

Also hope that we would have the ability to have a regular job AND one or several freelance careers. So you can work as a waitress and also complete gigs as a freelance musican and a freelance enteratainer. That would bring some realism hehe. :D :'(

I think more an artistic EP than a bands only.

Drums, saxophone and bass are a must, also bands.

Magicians and acrobats from TS3 can fit too.

Break dance mat from TS2.

Mimes and Gabby The Mime as returning NPC from TS1.

These are all wonderful ideas. I'd like to see the singing career pulled out a little more as well like a solo singer or singer in a band. Music options for all of it should be popular and or classical music styles, it could fit in with likes/dislikes.

Career paths could include Singer or Vocalist: where your sim could be Soloist or Singer in a group or band. A choral option would be cool too. The sims could practice/perform or play in impromptu combinations like duets, trios, bands, orchestras, and choirs, instrumental or vocal only or both together. Opportunity for some lovely vocal harmonizing as well (I love, love the country duet on the karaoke machine).

Musical styles must include Rock n Roll band, Blues, classical ensemble variations, Punk Rock band, Metal band, Jazz, Hip Hop, Pop with genre appropriate stage wardrobes and makeup to match.

I'd also prefer that the music/bands pack not be crammed into a small stuff pack but made into a bigger game pack at the very least.

As awesome as a band pack will be I think its more likely we will see new instruments in future packs and base game refreshes. Its kind of tricky to have a band pack because the singing skill from city living will have to become base game which means city living comes with no skills. I'm not sure how it would work but hey, maybe one day.

Ok, there's mine, a new version of TS3 Showtime so you can expect more than only bands and musical instruments

• New world of course!
  
• New musical instruments, each with a skill: bass, drums, saxophone, flute and harp
  
• Portable keyboard
  
• Mimes and Gabby The Mime!
  
• Teen sims can form bands in their homes and play with friends!
  
• Break dance mat
  
• New careers: acrobat, singer and magician
  
• New lot type: stage
  
• New skills: karate and ballet. Not related with bands or musical instrument but better than a dedicated kit!
  
• New objects: bass, drums, saxophone, flute, harp, box of mystery, high bar, ballet barre, breaking boards and others!
  
• New build features: attic rooms! Also as BG update
  

I too would love everything that Sims 3 Showtime had put into Sims 4. Plus, the Genies. :p

So many great ideas! I would particularly love a freelance musician career as it is my sim's dream job, particularly if it involves teaching music/singing as well as performing/singing, recording and writing songs. I would also love bands, an opera house, more radio stations (e.g. opera, showtunes, R&B) and musical instruments (e.g. lute, harp). An upright piano would be great too.