“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.
15 transcribed bass lines as played by Paul Gill
Intermediate Jazz Conception
for: Double bass [bass guitar]
Music lesson book, online playback
Item no.: 464699
for: Double bass [bass guitar]
Music lesson book
Item no.: 100349
Hal Leonard Bass Method
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online playback
Item no.: 430101
10 Classic Rock Songs für E-Bass
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs), Playback-CD
Item no.: 668725
in the Choro Jam Session
for: Double bass [bass guitar]
Music lesson book
Item no.: 768620
30 Classical Pieces
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with tabs – anthology)
Item no.: 769302
A world history of styles and techniques
englische Ausgabe
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, 2 playback CDs
Item no.: 610410
Musicians Institute
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 208299
Em
for: Bass guitar
Bass Tab
Item no.: 1024688
10 Classic Rock Songs Reloaded
Bass Along (Bosworth)
for: Bass guitar
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 621570
Bass
for: Bass guitar
Buch + CD
Item no.: 173011
for acoustic and electric bass
for: Double bass [bass guitar]
Music score
Item no.: 376228
Berklee Guide
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 484016
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
A Practical Guide
for: Double bass [bass guitar]
Music lesson book, online audio
Item no.: 328396
75 Exercises to Build Endurance and Flexibility for Bass Guitar Players
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 806125
für E-Bass (mit Tabulatur&CD)
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs), Playback-CD
Item no.: 604913
Unterrichtsmaterial
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 972603
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 564876
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 776940
Incl. 60-Min.-CD mit Playbacks bekannter Hits
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 160254
Bass Recorded Versions
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 444063
for: Bass guitar
Item no.: 153239
Homespun Tapes
for: Bass guitar
Buch + CD
Item no.: 473685
E-Bass-Spiel leicht gemacht
for: Bass guitar
Item no.: 108671
Swingende Weihnachtslieder für Unterricht, Vorspiele und Feiern
für zwei bis drei Bassinstrumente im Kanon oder Ensemble
for: 2–3 bass instruments (C)
Ensemble score (anthology)
Item no.: 669181
für E-Bass
for: Bass guitar
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 617383
Bass Recorded Versions Persona
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 810623
Complete Electric Bass Method
for: Bass guitar
CD
Item no.: 939780
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 476929
Bass Guitar Series
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 281395
One-of-a-kind collection of accessible, must-know hits from Bruno Mars and Aerosmith to Pearl Jam and Lep Zeppelin
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 1215678
Bass Guitar Series
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 281380
Essential Bass Lines, Techniques, Theory and Grooves
Bass Instruction
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, online audio
Item no.: 693693
Bass Builders
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 245331
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 766755
for: Bass guitar
Music score, CD
Item no.: 167575
Berklee Guide
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 328353
At a Glance
for: Bass guitar
Book, DVD
Item no.: 808013
Prüfungsliteratur
for: Bass guitar
Buch + CD
Item no.: 455851
Unterrichtsmaterial
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD, DVD
Item no.: 960709
Lick Library
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 681934
Unterrichtsmaterial
for: Bass guitar
Buch + CD
Item no.: 1352531
For Dummies
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online playback
Item no.: 649044
A Step-by-Step Breakdown of Bass Guitar Styles and Techniques
Bass Signature Licks
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), Demo CD
Item no.: 342249
Progressive
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD
Item no.: 367493
Lick Library
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 681935
Progressive
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD
Item no.: 375298
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
Bass
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 468253