“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
for: Bass guitar
Book, DVD
Item no.: 820523
Pop und Rock
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 827602
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), DVD
Item no.: 771519
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), DVD
Item no.: 684192
Musicians Institute
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 560462
Created Especially For Bassists
for bass (4-string and 5-string)
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs)
Item no.: 472683
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs), Playback-CD
Item no.: 276784
Prüfungsliteratur
for: Bass guitar
Buch + CD
Item no.: 455741
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 1556659
Instructional-Bass-DVD
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 215624
Guitar Educational
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 476849
Three duets and five solo pieces
Music – Instruction – Historical Analysis
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 579830
Bass Instruction
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online playback
Item no.: 607074
Discover how to find your way around the whole fretboard with confidence with this vital book and CD, using the essential patterns that all the pros know.
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 431402
Bass Instruction
for: Bass guitar
Buch + CD
Item no.: 806852
A Quick and Easy Introduction for Beginners
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 801693
Bass Instruction
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 168733
Starter Series DVD
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 366674
Bass Play-Along Volume 9
Play 8 Songs With Tab And Sound-Alike CD Tracks
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with tabs), online audio
Item no.: 477872
Eine Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitung zum erfolgreichen E-Bass-Spiel
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 362159
Bass Builders
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 277450
Stil und Spieltechniken von Motown
A step-by-step breakdown of the bass styles and techniques of motown
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), online audio
Item no.: 313575
Progressive
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD
Item no.: 960770
Volume 2
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD
Item no.: 960765
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD
Item no.: 602952
Play 8 Songs With Tab And Sound-Alike Audio
Bass Play-Along Volume 46
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with tabs), online playback
Item no.: 657692
Musicians Institute
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 601704
Hal Leonard Bass Method
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 319167
Instructional-Bass-DVD
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 177486
Hal Leonard Bass Method
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 212222
An Inside Look at the Bass Style of Bootsy Collins
12 songs
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), online audio
Item no.: 601218
a world history of styles and techniques
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), 3 CDs
Item no.: 775924
Studien und Übungen
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, CD, DVD
Item no.: 1556415
for: Bass guitar
Item no.: 1676829
for: Piano, electric guitar, percussion
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1351381
Schule
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1638419
Sudien und Übungen
for: Bass guitar
Buch + CD + DVD
Item no.: 1591573
Backing Tracks
for: Bass guitar
CD
Item no.: 972566
Bass Play-Along Volume 47
Zehn Dream Theater-Hits für Bass mit online Play-Along Audio
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with tabs), online playback
Item no.: 667209
Pour Acoustiques & Electriques Basses
for: Bass guitar
Music score, CD
Item no.: 1549597
Bass Play-Along Volume 38
Sieben Avenged Sevenfold-Hits für Bass mit Play-Along CD
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs), Playback-CD
Item no.: 667205
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1208601
Play Music France
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD, DVD
Item no.: 972624
Pieces for little ones from the age of five up
for: Voice, double bass [bass guitar]
Music score
Item no.: 655183
for: Bass guitar
Item no.: 218410
ALB
Peter Pickow Teaches you how to play bass guitar from the very beginning, introduces fills, walking bass lines, chords and scales. Fits into the guitar case.
Pocket Practise Books
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 300578
Pop und Rock
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD
Item no.: 556809
Jazz
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 271364