“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.
Complete Edition
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs), Playback-CD
Item no.: 583003
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 606331
Jazz
for: Bass guitar
Music score, CD
Item no.: 271439
for: Bass guitar
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 350651
Guida allo studio del basso elettrico
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 771289
for: Bass guitar
Songbook (with standard notation and TABs)
Item no.: 174277
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 476929
Second Edition
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 774971
Bass Recorded Versions Persona
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1633959
for: Double bass [bass guitar]
Music lesson book, 2 playback CDs
Item no.: 328395
for: Double bass [bass guitar]
Music lesson book
Item no.: 100349
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs)
Item no.: 253103
Das ultimative Nachschlagewerk mit über 1000 Übungen und 2 CDs
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, 2 playback CDs
Item no.: 190350
A world history of styles and techniques
englische Ausgabe
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, 2 playback CDs
Item no.: 610410
A comprehensive guide for bass guitar players of all abilities. Includes the "Band Jam: Jam Academy" DVD so you can practice various styles as part of a "real" band.
No Excuses
for: Bass guitar
DVD, CD (learning video)
Item no.: 313465
Jazz
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 944085
Jazz
for: Bass guitar
Music score, CD
Item no.: 271151
Jazz
for: Bass guitar
Music score, CD
Item no.: 277797
Jazz
for: Bass guitar
Music score, CD
Item no.: 550997
L'Histoire des Styles et des Techniques à travers le mond
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, 2 playback CDs
Item no.: 609463
a world history of styles and techniques
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), 3 CDs
Item no.: 775924
A Contemporary Rhythmic Approach
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book
Item no.: 100350
Bass Guitar
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 836519
The Life and Music of legendary bassist James Jamerson
for: Bass guitar
Book (with online audio)
Item no.: 400369
Unterrichtsmaterial
for: Bass guitar
Buch + CD
Item no.: 839331
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), DVD
Item no.: 552537
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), DVD
Item no.: 552557
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 561058
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), DVD
Item no.: 552556
Bass Recorded Versions
for: Bass guitar
Songbook (with guitar Tabs – without standard notation)
Item no.: 657688
Unterrichtsmaterial
for: Bass guitar
Buch + CD
Item no.: 1106640
Ausgabe für Bassgitarre
Buch & DVD
for: Bass guitar
Sheet music, DVD
Item no.: 649546
250 Songs
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1669352
for: Bass guitar
Schule
Item no.: 1114673
Schule
for: Bass guitar
Book, DVD
Item no.: 1008499
Schule
for: Bass guitar
Book, DVD
Item no.: 1113334
Metodo Avanzato Per L'Esecuzione Del Blues Jazz Funky Rock
for: Bass guitar
Score
Item no.: 252777
for: Piano, electric guitar, percussion
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1351381
für Streicher, Oboe, E-Gitarre, E-Bass, Keyboard und Violine solo
for: Strings, oboe, electric guitar, bass guitar, keyboard, violin (solo)
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 685543