Music

Let a little music fill your life with this exciting career track. This career is not about the money—it’s about the music. Or, at least it’s about the music at first with the extra benefit of truckloads of Simoleons later on when you’re filling stadiums with fans that cannot wait to hear your next overblown anthem.

The music career has two branches, the Rock and the Symphonic tracks.

Work Location: Wilsonoff Community Theater

How Hired: Report to theater, answer computer ad, answer newspaper ad

Work Week: This is a slower work week with fewer hours than other careers—and never any work on Sunday. When the career splits, the Rock branch moves to an evening shift closer to the weekends. The Symphonic branch remains closer to the original level with occasional concerts.

Salary Progression: Musicians make low pay in the beginning. Toward the top of the career ladder, musicians are very well-paid.

Music Career

Rock Career

Symphonic Career

Benefits and Rewards

Naturally, the key to advancing in this career is the development of the Guitar skill. Starting out with a class at the theater is a good way to get a head start on the career.

At first, you do not even need the Guitar skill because you are just a Fan and Roadie. But keeping on top of the skill before it becomes critical to advancement has nothing but advantages.

The Guitar skill is a constant metric for promotions no matter which branch you choose when you reach the sixth promotion.

Music Tones

To continue moving up the career ladder, you must maintain a good mood and have a good relationship with co-workers, who are called band or orchestra members depending on the career path taken. Use of the Study Music Theory tone because it helps build the Guitar skill—and the Logic skill, which is

a critical measure for the Symphonic branch. In the Rock branch, you need to practice for gigs because performing concerts is a key to advancement.

Rock Branch

The next promotion following the Music Talent Scout in the Rock branch is Lyricist. When you reach this promotion, you can start holding concerts. Use this interaction on the theater and stadium to stage two- or four-hour concerts that are measured as part of the promotion process.

(This interaction is only available between noon and midnight.) Once you choose to hold a concert and enter the venue, other Sims will follow.

Once inside the Rock branch, the relationship to other band members is no longer important. After all, rockers could care less about what others think of them—they are the center of the universe.

When the Sim becomes the Backup Vocalist, they unlock the Wave interaction to use at any place where music is playing. It’s a fun action that boosts mood.

Keep performing concerts and keep up the Guitar skill to reach the pinnacle of the branch: Rock Star. At this level, your carpool is replaced by a pastel limo that will take you anywhere. At this level, the Sim can also select venues and choose to Hold Autograph Session, just like the Athlete career.

The goal is to sign as many autographs as possible with the other Sims on the lot. The more signed, the more money is awarded for the session.

Once the Sim achieves Rock Star, they no longer have a work schedule. Money is earned exclusively by holding concerts.

To maximize pay-outs, hold the concert at the stadium. The concert takes longer than one at the theater, but the salary is double.

Symphonic Branch

The Symphonic branch of the Music career unfolds a bit differently than the Rock branch. In this track, relationships with other musicians are very important, so be sure to use that tone to get ahead. Keep advancing the Guitar skill whenever possible, too.

Once you close in on the Orchestra Lead promotion, develop the Logic skill. (Practice Music Theory is a good way to boost the Logic skill while at work.) Once you reach level 8 of this career—Orchestra Lead—you earn free admission to activities at the theater. This is great for boosting moods.

The highest level of the career—Hit Movie Composer—comes with an object reward: 85g Audio Explosion. This high-end stereo boosts the Fun of Sims in its listening radius and can be used to develop the Athletic ability.