“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.
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs), Playback-CD
Item no.: 551495
Progressive
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD, DVD
Item no.: 960925
Pop und Rock
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 828340
Italian Book, CD & DVD
for: Bass guitar
Music score, CD, DVD
Item no.: 659142
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs), Playback-CD
Item no.: 371568
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 253249
Instructional-Bass-DVD
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 428414
for: Bass guitar
Music score, CD
Item no.: 334588
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs), CD, DVD
Item no.: 467415
Bass signature licks
A step by step breakdown of Flea's Bass Style and Techniques
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), online audio
Item no.: 342192
Adventures In Spontaneous Jamming And Techniques
Instructional-Bass-DVD
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 328616
Instructional-Bass-DVD
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 1106482
for double bass/electric bass
for: Double bass [bass guitar]
Music lesson book, online audio
Item no.: 674919
(Recorded Version)
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 626098
Constructing Bass Lines
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 1354785
Hot Licks
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 1665457
Instructional-Bass-DVD
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 329657
Bass Spielen In Jazz, Rock und Pop
for: Double bass [bass guitar]
Music lesson book, online audio
Item no.: 1633690
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 302594
Hot Licks
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 142460
Instructional-Bass-DVD
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 149152
Complete Electric Bass Method
for: Bass guitar
Book, DVD
Item no.: 938956
63 Funk Studies for the electric bass
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 100351
for: Bass guitar
Music score, CD
Item no.: 457403
Play Bass with...
8 Songs with full instrumental Demos and Backing Tracks
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs), 2 CDs
Item no.: 581416
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book
Item no.: 251995
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), DVD
Item no.: 583007
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 494885
Bass Recorded Versions
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 191852
Pop und Rock
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 940118
Steve Bailey & Victor Wooten
(DVD)
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 143429
Pop und Rock
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 847505
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs), CD, DVD
Item no.: 368239
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 Recorded Versions Persona
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 1550377
Play It Like It Is
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 328480
Bass Recorded Versions Persona
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 770765
Bass Recorded Versions Persona
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 803577
Stil und Spieltechniken von Motown
A step-by-step breakdown of the bass styles and techniques of motown
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), online audio
Item no.: 313575
Bass Recorded Versions
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 173586
Bass Recorded Versions Persona
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 1670798
Bass Recorded Versions
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 300838
Bass Builders
for: Bass guitar
Buch + CD
Item no.: 297778
Bass Recorded Versions
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 138916
Bass Recorded Versions
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 194997
Bass Recorded Versions
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 109230
Bass Recorded Versions
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 342794
Bass Recorded Versions
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1652454