“The bass is the foundation… Whatever you play puts a framework around the rest of the music.” Carol Kaye
No matter which musical genre you enjoy, the foundations are always built around the bass. Browse our sheet music and scores, covering all different styles and genres, for all ages and stages, take a look at our Bass Guitar Sheet Music Downloads, and start wandering through the wide world of bass guitar with Stretta Music today.
The challenges facing the bass in the early 20th century, as various new musical genres began to emerge, were size and volume. As early as 1910, Gibson developed an acoustic bass guitar, which started to tackle the question of size, but it wasn’t for another twenty years, before the question of volume was first addressed. Paul Tutmarc in Seattle built the first electric bass in 1933, the Model 736 Bass Fiddle, which was still fairly large, and used an electromagnetic pickup.
Although Tutmarc’s following prototypes started to look more and more like the modern bass guitar, integrating frets and becoming more compact, the bass guitar didn’t see great success until 1951, when Leo Fender created the Precision Bass. From there, many different manufacturers have developed bass guitars in various designs and shapes, and today, there are four main types of bass guitar: Electric Bass, Electric Acoustic Bass, Fretless Bass and Extended Range Bass (ERB) which has five or six strings.
(Recorded Version)
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 342247
Play Bass Guitar with the Biggest and Best Songs from Nirvana!
Eight of Their Greatest Songs, Transcribed for Bass in Standard Notation and Tabulature with Vocal Line
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs), Playback-CD
Item no.: 464328
63 Funk Studies for the electric bass (+CD)
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 100351
13 original Jazz Etudes in a Variety of Styles and Tempos for bass clef instrument
Playalong with TNT Custom Mix Software
for: Bass guitar [double bass/trombone/tuba]
DVD (Playback)
Item no.: 655126
Play Along with 8 Great-Sounding Tracks
Ultimate Play-Along
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with tabs), 2 Playback-CDs
Item no.: 847868
for: Bass guitar
Songbook (with standard notation and TABs)
Item no.: 174277
Musicians Institute
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD
Item no.: 242521
Play Bass with the Biggest and Best Songs from R.E.M.
Playalong-CD Included
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs), Playback-CD
Item no.: 469937
A comprehensive source for scales, arpeggios, chord forms and techniques.
Bass Builders
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (standard notation and tabs), online playback
Item no.: 243845
Transcriptions - Lessons - Bios - Photos
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with tabs), online audio
Item no.: 677107
Bass
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 489906
30 Classical Pieces
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with tabs – anthology)
Item no.: 769302
a world history of styles and techniques
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), 3 CDs
Item no.: 775924
Bass
for: Bass guitar
Buch + CD
Item no.: 398879
Bass Builders
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 147633
Bass Instruction
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 277013
Bass Builders
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 190879
The Life and Music of legendary bassist James Jamerson
for: Bass guitar
Book (with online audio)
Item no.: 400369
Learn to play slap bass in seven popular Afro-Cuban styles
Book with Play-Along-CD
for: Bass guitar
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 369981
Starting now you can learn everything you need to know to play bass by exploring the music of Metallica.
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), online audio
Item no.: 279063
Musicians Institute
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 560462
Play the Bass Lines of 20 Pop and Rock Songs
Hal Leonard Bass Method (Supplement)
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online playback
Item no.: 178364
Bass
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 579827
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), DVD
Item no.: 684192
Bass
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 362442
Bass Builders
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 183518
Bass Recorded Versions
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 494176
Get Your Band Together
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD
Item no.: 417333
The Language of Music and how to speak it
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), online video
Item no.: 674638
500 Grooves - All Styles - All Levels
Hal Leonard Bass Method
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), online audio
Item no.: 674748
Em
for: Bass guitar
Bass Tab
Item no.: 1024688
Prüfungsliteratur
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 1169329
ABC of Bass Guitar
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 675050
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs), Playback-CD
Item no.: 276784
Eine Einführung in Rock und Pop-Styles, Technik, Sound und Ausrüstung
for: Bass guitar
Item no.: 555257
Bass Instruction
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 564868
Contains Books 1,2, and 3
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 273036
Bass Builders
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 248111
D
for: Bass guitar
Bass Tab
Item no.: 1024678
Learn How to Play the Right Way!
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), online video
Item no.: 693342
Progressive
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD, DVD
Item no.: 960925
Bass Builders
for: Bass guitar
Buch + CD
Item no.: 180168
The Bassists Guide to Time, Feel and Rhythm
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD
Item no.: 376236
Bass Builders
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 245331
Hal Leonard Bass Method
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 334313
Bass Instruction
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 603724
Hal Leonard Bass Method
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 212222
The Master of Funk teaches you how to Thump!
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, online video
Item no.: 678630
Bass Play-Along Volume 59
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), online audio
Item no.: 1215676
A Study in Musical Styles for Bass
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 827778