“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.
Bass Recorded Versions
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 494176
Bass-Tabulatur
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 552416
Book
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 470374
The Music & Life of Legendary Bassist Donald Duck Dunn
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 1532810
This complete edition contains books 1, 2 and 3 bound together in one easy-to-use volume.
Hal Leonard Bass Method (Lehrmaterial) (Teaching material)
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 297982
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 296444
DVD 1: Scales, Modes and their Applications
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 367426
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 1660713
for acoustic and electric bass
for: Double bass [bass guitar]
Music score
Item no.: 376228
Scuola Superiore di Musica
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 770339
Tecniche e stili del basso nell'accompagnamento
for: Double bass [bass guitar]
Lesson book (standard notation and tabs), playback-CD
Item no.: 766605
50 Songs für Bass
(mit Formteilen und Tabulatur)
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 666742
Klassik
for: Bass guitar
Score
Item no.: 239151
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1547319
Scuola Superiore di Musica
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 771916
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, online audio
Item no.: 658632
DVD 2: Further Mastery of Scales and Modes
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 368279
per basso elettrico
for: Bass guitar
Music score, CD
Item no.: 658633
Lick Library
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 337238
Lick Library
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 300875
Lick Library
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 470456
Lick Library
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 488988
Lick Library
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 432054
Lick Library
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 433124
Road Rock Lick Library
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 370053
Step by Step zu Jazz- & Latin-Basslinien
for: Double bass [bass guitar]
Music lesson book, 3 CDs
Item no.: 493696
Complete (Mel Bay)
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 827922
Jazz
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 270311
basse Africaine (+CD)
secrets of the African bass
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online playback
Item no.: 214282
Instructional-Bass-DVD
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 215624
Instructional-Bass-DVD
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 361141
The Murphy Method
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 828844
A Practical Guide
for: Double bass [bass guitar]
Music lesson book (spiral binding), online audio
Item no.: 328396
Instructional DVD for 6-String Bass
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 428094
Instructional-Bass-DVD
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 465156
for: Bass guitar, percussion (rhythm section rockband)
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 248009
for: Bass guitar
Book, DVD
Item no.: 943307
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 565252
for: Bass guitar
Item no.: 211421
for: Bass guitar
Book, DVD
Item no.: 844224
Alfred's Artist Series
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, DVD
Item no.: 364509
Complete Edition
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs), Playback-CD
Item no.: 583003
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 606331
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