“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.: 1652454
Berklee Labs
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 132457
Red Hot Chili Peppers
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 346228
The Complete Resource for Every Bass Player!
70 Songs!
for: Bass guitar
Songbook PVG (Piano/Vocal/Guitar incl. Tabs)
Item no.: 606041
Unterrichtsmaterial
for: Bass guitar
Buch + DVD
Item no.: 100253
ALB
Chuck Rainey This easy to follow method gives you the two skills you need, dexterity and musicianship. Superb demonstration photographs.
The Complete Electric Bass Pla (Lehrmaterial)
for: Bass guitar
Item no.: 414776
Artist Transcriptions
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 136561
(Recorded Version)
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 193921
Pop und Rock
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 209281
Play Bass With
for: Bass guitar
Music book, 2 CDs
Item no.: 563301
Bass
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 820583
Berklee Press
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 342261
Bass Guitar Series
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 281380
Bass
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1654953
Bass signature licks a step-by-step breakdown
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), Demo CD
Item no.: 191882
Jazz
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 270808
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 765130
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 765121
for: Bass guitar
DVD, booklet (educational book)
Item no.: 767305
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 765085
for: Bass guitar
DVD, booklet (educational book)
Item no.: 767301
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 765264
for: Bass guitar
DVD, booklet (educational book)
Item no.: 767310
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 641936
for: Bass guitar
DVD, booklet (educational book)
Item no.: 767262
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 765270
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 765259
Mit Precison, Jazz, Jaguar, Mustang und Squier Bass
for: Bass guitar
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 682647
Bass Recorded Versions
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 494886
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online playback
Item no.: 641804
Hal Leonard Bass Method
for: Bass guitar
Buch + CD + DVD
Item no.: 811171
A Linear Approach to Improvising
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 429784
Hal Leonard Bass Method
for: Double bass [bass guitar]
Music lesson book, online audio
Item no.: 683256
Instructional-Bass-DVD
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 465158
Bass
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 362442
Bass Recorded Versions Persona
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1532321
Bass Builders
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 190879
for: Bass guitar
Item no.: 271365
Hot Licks
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 354765
Schule
for: Bass guitar
Book, DVD
Item no.: 945492
PLAY IT LIKE IT IS
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 636415
Scales and Modes for the Bass Guitarist
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 940475
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 947991
The Ultimate Multimedia Instructor
for: Bass guitar
CD-ROM
Item no.: 943090
Schule
for: Bass guitar
Score
Item no.: 253010
Lick Library
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 1531517
for: Bass guitar
Item no.: 270310
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD
Item no.: 154256