“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.
Begleit CD zum Stimmheft E-Bass
for: Winds class [bass guitar]
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 1020909
Trinity Rock and Pop 2018
for: Bass guitar
CD
Item no.: 1665314
Alle wichtigen Tonleitern im Überblick!
Poster plano/gerollt.
for: Bass guitar
Fingering chart (Poster)
Item no.: 268820
Music Makes The World Go Round
for: Double bass [bass guitar]
Item no.: 1669273
for: Bass guitar
Study book
Item no.: 1664665
for: Bass guitar
Item no.: 1660144
for: Bass guitar
Magnet
Item no.: 691442
Griffbrettstempel für Bass/Ukulele/Banjo/Mandoline
for: Ukulele [mandolin, banjo, bass guitar]
Stamp
Item no.: 605139
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), playback-CD (mp3)
Item no.: 1653572
Grooves & More for the Beginner
Rocktile
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), DVD
Item no.: 608342
The Faber Graded Rock & Pop Series
for: Bass guitar
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 1672340
Das gesammelte Wissen der Profis
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), Demo CD
Item no.: 132058
Nur für Anfänger
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD
Item no.: 293065
Bass Instruction
for: Bass guitar
Music score, CD
Item no.: 1610759
Pieces for little ones from the age of five up
for: Voice, double bass [bass guitar]
Music score
Item no.: 1661583
Rock, Pop & Jazz
mit CD
for: Guitar, bass guitar
Music score (with TABs), Playback-CD
Item no.: 622083
Pieces for little ones from the age of five up
for: Voice, double bass [bass guitar]
Music score
Item no.: 622106
Transcription à la basse des suites pour violoncelle de Bach
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 643162
Bass
for: Bass guitar
Buch + CD
Item no.: 173011
for: Bass guitar
Item no.: 469221
Full-Sized Edition
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), online audio
Item no.: 1668688
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, online audio & video
Item no.: 1664038
Das Standardwerk für den Einstieg in das Bass-Spiel!
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), online audio
Item no.: 127667
Bass Play-Alongs
8 fetzige Rocksongs zum Mitspielen!
for: Bass guitar
Book, Playback-CD
Item no.: 1672383
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 1669477
3. Auflage
for: Bass guitar
Study book (without notes), CD, online audio
Item no.: 1560415
Bass-Gitarre & Schlagzeug
Play Music Publishing
for: Bass guitar, percussion (rhythm section rockband)
Lesson book (standard notation and tabs), playback-CD
Item no.: 611931
Features Over 130 Classic Heavy Metal Licks
for: Bass guitar
Study book (with tabs – without notes), CD
Item no.: 1198774
Jazz Ensemble Playalong
mit Demo- und Playback-Version
for: Double bass [bass guitar]
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 479880
Jazz Ensemble Playalong
mit Demo- und Playback-Version
for: Double bass [bass guitar]
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 1688528
Play the Bass Lines of 20 Pop and Rock Songs
Hal Leonard Bass Method (Supplement)
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online playback
Item no.: 178364
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs), Playback-CD
Item no.: 1667511
Authentic bass playalong songbook vocal/bass/tab
for: Bass guitar
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 1671970
Authentic Playalong
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs), Playback-CD
Item no.: 1664269
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), DVD
Item no.: 1652699
Bass Play-Along Volume 29
Acht Eric Clapton-Hits für Bass mit Play-Along CD
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with tabs), online audio
Item no.: 655706
A Step By Step Approach for Developing Improvisers
for: Double bass [bass guitar]
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 657795
30 Classical Pieces
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with tabs – anthology)
Item no.: 769302
Bass Play-Along Volume 59
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), online audio
Item no.: 1652123
proben, musizieren und lernen
Yamaha Bläser Klasse
for: Winds class [bass guitar]
Single part (lesson book), playback CD
Item no.: 1653349
for: Bass guitar
Item no.: 1676829
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 1668357
für Vier- und Fünfsaiter
(mit Grifftabelle)
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs), Playback-CD
Item no.: 677333
für Vier- und Fünfsaiter, mit CD und Plektrum
Alles, was du zur Plektrumtechnik wissen musst!
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, CD (mp3)
Item no.: 771711
Corso teorico pratico a indirizzo pop rock
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, online audio
Item no.: 1023542
Modes of the Melodic Minor, Harmonic Minor, Diminished, Whole-Tone, and Blues Scales
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs)
Item no.: 1654108
Hal Leonard Bass Method
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 455819
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 668829