“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.
in the Choro Jam Session
for: Double bass [bass guitar]
Music lesson book
Item no.: 768620
Em
for: Bass guitar
Bass Tab
Item no.: 1024688
A world history of styles and techniques
englische Ausgabe
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, 2 playback CDs
Item no.: 610410
30 Classical Pieces
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with tabs – anthology)
Item no.: 769302
for acoustic and electric bass
for: Double bass [bass guitar]
Music score
Item no.: 376228
for: Bass guitar
Item no.: 100349
75 Exercises to Build Endurance and Flexibility for Bass Guitar Players
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 806125
A Practical Guide
for: Double bass [bass guitar]
Music lesson book, online audio
Item no.: 328396
Hal Leonard Bass Method
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online playback
Item no.: 430101
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 564876
Homespun Tapes
for: Bass guitar
Buch + CD
Item no.: 473685
Bass Recorded Versions
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 444063
Incl. 60-Min.-CD mit Playbacks bekannter Hits
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 160254
Bass Recorded Versions Persona
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 810623
for: Bass guitar
Item no.: 153239
Bass Guitar Series
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 281395
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 476929
Complete Electric Bass Method
for: Bass guitar
CD
Item no.: 939780
Bass Guitar Series
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 281380
D
for: Bass guitar
Bass Tab
Item no.: 1024625
Em
for: Bass guitar
Bass Tab
Item no.: 1024655
Am
for: Bass guitar
Bass Tab
Item no.: 1024676
Dm
for: Bass guitar
Bass Tab
Item no.: 1024683
C
for: Bass guitar
Bass Tab
Item no.: 1024687
G
for: Bass guitar
Bass Tab
Item no.: 1024701
Bm
for: Bass guitar
Bass Tab
Item no.: 1024702
Deluxe Beginner Edition Audio & Video Access Included
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, online media
Item no.: 1544223
Klassik
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 827706
Schule
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD
Item no.: 972381
GCSE Performance Pieces
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD
Item no.: 1329765
Unterrichtsmaterial
for: Bass guitar
Buch + CD
Item no.: 1352531
C
for: Bass guitar
Bass Tab
Item no.: 1024690
Eine Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitung zum erfolgreichen E-Bass-Spiel
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 362159
Introduces You to Scale Theory and Application.
for: Bass guitar
Study book
Item no.: 416044
Bass Builders
for: Bass guitar
Buch + CD
Item no.: 190038
Speed, Thrash & Old School
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 1354790
Bass Builders
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 190879
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), DVD
Item no.: 771519
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
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
Bass
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 489906
Instructional-Bass-DVD
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 428414
for: Bass guitar
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 433760
Guitar Educational
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 476849
Bass Builders
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 245331
At a Glance
for: Bass guitar
Book, DVD
Item no.: 808013
Ausgabe für Bassgitarre
Buch & DVD
for: Bass guitar
Sheet music, DVD
Item no.: 649546
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 766755
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book
Item no.: 251995
Essential Bass Lines, Techniques, Theory and Grooves
Bass Instruction
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, online audio
Item no.: 693693