“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 lesson book, DVD
Item no.: 767113
Musicians Institute
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 208299
Berklee Guide
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 608851
Bass
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 585807
Hal Leonard Bass Method
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 580811
Musicians Institute
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 560462
Bass Guitar Series
for: Bass guitar
Sheet music (with chords and TABs)
Item no.: 281394
for: Bass guitar
Item no.: 400253
Musicians Institute Essential Concepts
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD
Item no.: 227979
for bass guitar/tab
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online playback
Item no.: 641766
Bass Recorded Versions
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation, chords and tabs)
Item no.: 334138
Berklee Guide
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 484016
Bass Guitar Series
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 281395
for: Guitar, bass guitar
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 693722
(Recorded Version)
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 342247
Bass Recorded Versions
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 179038
Bass Recorded Versions Persona
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 802748
Learn to play slap bass in seven popular Afro-Cuban styles
Book with Play-Along-CD
for: Bass guitar
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 369981
Bass Signature Licks
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), online audio
Item no.: 313649
Demystify the Fretboard and Reveal Your Full Bass Potential!
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, online audio
Item no.: 686780
Hal Leonard Bass Play-Along Volume 61
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with tabs), online audio
Item no.: 1669377
The Best Step-by-Step Guide to Start Playing
for: Bass guitar
Study book (with guitar tabs), online media
Item no.: 1689309
Bass Recorded Versions
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 558754
(Recorded Version)
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 626098
Classic Jazz Masters Series
for: Double bass [bass guitar]
Music score
Item no.: 336433
Bass Instruction
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 564868
Bass
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 579827
(Teaching material)
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (standard notation and tabs), playback-CD
Item no.: 579829
(Recorded Version)
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 375483
Bass Builders
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online playback
Item no.: 275966
Musicians Institute
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 470067
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, CD, DVD
Item no.: 371437
16 great performances transcribed note-for-note with tab for acoustic and electric Bass.
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 615277
Bass Instruction
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 277013
Note-for-note transcriptions of 18 classic performances
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 641515
Red Hot Chili Peppers
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 460299
Bass Lesson Goldmine Series
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 641680
Bass Recorded Versions
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 797865
Bass Recorded Versions
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 609115
Bass Builders
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 164822
Berklee Guide
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 328353
Get Your Band Together
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD
Item no.: 417333
Bass Recorded Versions Persona
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 582612
Bass Instruction
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 226279
A Beginner's Guide To The Electric Bass
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD
Item no.: 820638
The Ultimate Bass Lesson Book
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 664010
for: Bass guitar
Item no.: 189766
for: Bass guitar
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 177293
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