“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.
Livello intermedio
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 973010
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, 2 CDs
Item no.: 972868
Livello base
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 973144
Lezioni, Consigli e Tecniche Dal Suo Archivio Privato Di Insegnamento
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 972689
Idee, consigli, trucchi e regole per tutte le occasioni
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, online video
Item no.: 1317070
Tecnica di base del contrabbasso per bassisti elettrici
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, online video
Item no.: 1317049
con approccio visuale
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, CD (mp3)
Item no.: 1215846
Bass Play-Along Volume 59
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), online audio
Item no.: 1215676
in the Style of Classical Music
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 1210004
The best single source for learning to play like the masters
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online media
Item no.: 1161243
for: Bass guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1357159
a 4 e 5 corde
430 esercizi, consigli pratici e suggerimenti stilistici
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book
Item no.: 1106066
Tecnica e diteggiature
Elementi fondamentali armonici e melodici
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book
Item no.: 1053319
Italian Edition
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book
Item no.: 1053325
for: Bass guitar
Music score, DVD
Item no.: 1044035
Backing Tracks
for: Bass guitar
CD
Item no.: 1032188
Non c'è niente di più facile...
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 1031494
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, CD (mp3)
Item no.: 1027110
Sudien und Übungen
for: Bass guitar
Buch + DVD
Item no.: 1549242
Sudien und Übungen
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 1591549
Pop und Rock
for: Bass guitar
Buch + DVD
Item no.: 1591551
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, DVD
Item no.: 1024916
Corso teorico pratico a indirizzo pop rock
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, online audio
Item no.: 1023542
Un piano di studi per il bassista contemporaneo
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book
Item no.: 1023444
Manuale teorico pratico per basso elettrico
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, online audio
Item no.: 1021845
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, DVD
Item no.: 1019979
Rock'n'Roll e Rockabilly
for: Bass guitar
Study book, DVD
Item no.: 1019971
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1018986
for: Bass guitar
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 1017815
for: Bass guitar
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 1017813
for: Bass guitar
Study book, CD
Item no.: 972871
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (standard notation and tabs), playback-CD
Item no.: 1012765
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), Demo CD
Item no.: 1012762
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (standard notation and tabs), playback-CD
Item no.: 1012763
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, DVD
Item no.: 797892
Bass Recorded Versions
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 797865
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book
Item no.: 796751
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), DVD
Item no.: 780748
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book (with chord charts), playback-CD
Item no.: 780680
Bass Play-Along Volume 4
2nd Edition
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with tabs), online playback
Item no.: 776886
Basics & Grooves – spielend Bass lernen
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, online media
Item no.: 776596
Ich nach dem uralten Rechte
for: Bass guitar
Piano reduction
Item no.: 776626
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 775832
Unterrichtsmaterial
for: Bass guitar
Book, DVD
Item no.: 1208521
Unterrichtsmaterial
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD
Item no.: 1163098
Sudien und Übungen
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1208527
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 1591556
Sudien und Übungen
for: Bass guitar
Book, DVD
Item no.: 1163097