“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
Book, CD
Item no.: 1208614
Schule
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD
Item no.: 487114
for: Bass guitar
Bass Tab
Item no.: 1024797
Schule
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD
Item no.: 456718
Schule
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD
Item no.: 443840
A
for: Bass guitar
Bass Tab
Item no.: 1024686
for: Bass guitar
Bass Tab
Item no.: 1024656
Eb
for: Bass guitar
Bass Tab
Item no.: 1024693
Em
for: Bass guitar
Bass Tab
Item no.: 1024703
A
for: Bass guitar
Bass Tab
Item no.: 1024679
Authentic bass playalong songbook vocal/bass/tab
for: Bass guitar
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 1671970
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD
Item no.: 841917
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1593309
Schule
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD
Item no.: 946371
Play Music Germany
for: Bass guitar
Buch + CD
Item no.: 1354192
Lick Library
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 681936
Bass
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD, DVD
Item no.: 960755
Hal Leonard Bass Method
for: Double bass [bass guitar]
Music lesson book, online audio
Item no.: 683256
Schule
for: Bass guitar
Book, DVD
Item no.: 1008499
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 1660713
Play Music Germany
for: Bass guitar
Buch + CD
Item no.: 1354188
The Language of Music and how to speak it
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), online video
Item no.: 1681594
Klassik
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD
Item no.: 1208623
for: Bass guitar
Book, DVD
Item no.: 1208610
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD
Item no.: 1208557
Sudien und Übungen
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD
Item no.: 1208574
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD
Item no.: 1208612
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 780851
Am
for: Bass guitar
Bass Tab
Item no.: 1024676
C
for: Bass guitar
Bass Tab
Item no.: 1024690
D
for: Bass guitar
Bass Tab
Item no.: 1024680
DVD vidéo pédagogique
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 779453
Lick Library
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 433124
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD
Item no.: 1208537
A comprehensive band method
for: Winds class [bass guitar]
Single part (educational)
Item no.: 692031
Bass Guitar Teaching
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, CD, online audio
Item no.: 1678371
Sudien und Übungen
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 944053
A Comprehensive Musicianship Band Method
for: Bass guitar
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 968876
Progressive
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD, DVD
Item no.: 960925
Complete (Mel Bay)
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 828329
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (standard notation and tabs), online playback
Item no.: 780875
Sudien und Übungen
for: Bass guitar
Book, DVD
Item no.: 1208540
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1110775
Sudien und Übungen
for: Bass guitar
CD
Item no.: 1593919
Unterrichtsmaterial
for: Bass guitar
Book, DVD
Item no.: 972662
Musiktheorie
for: Bass guitar
Asseccories
Item no.: 828402
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD, DVD
Item no.: 1208535
Unterrichtsmaterial
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD
Item no.: 972636