“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 Transcriptions
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 491355
for: Bass guitar
Songbook (with standard notation and TABs)
Item no.: 174277
Prüfungsliteratur
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 1169329
Prüfungsliteratur
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 1169326
Prüfungsliteratur
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 1169324
Bass Play-Along Volume 5
Play 8 Of Your Favorite Songs With Tab And Sound-Alike CD Tracks
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with tabs), online playback
Item no.: 487443
Bass Play-Along Volume 6
Play 8 of your favorite Songs with Tab and sound-alike CD Tracks
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with tabs), online playback
Item no.: 586362
Bass Recorded Versions
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation, chords and tabs)
Item no.: 334138
Bass Recorded Versions Persona
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1533008
Popular Bass Guitar For Beginners
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, online media
Item no.: 817047
Instructional-Bass-DVD
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 428414
Instructional DVD for 6-String Bass
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 428094
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book
Item no.: 1645339
Bass Builders
for: Bass guitar
Buch + CD
Item no.: 297778
Musicians Institute Essential Concepts
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD
Item no.: 227979
Musicians Institute
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD
Item no.: 242521
Instructional-Bass-DVD
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 323113
Unterrichtsmaterial
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD, DVD
Item no.: 960709
(Instrumental Solo)
for: Double bass [bass guitar]
Music lesson book
Item no.: 1684458
Bass Instruction
for: Bass guitar
Music score, CD
Item no.: 1610759
The ultimate transition book, designed to make a fast and easy switch from bass to guitar.
Music Sales America
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs)
Item no.: 469930
A Study in Musical Styles for Bass
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 827778
Prüfungsliteratur
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 1169325
Bass signature licks
A step by step breakdown of Flea's Bass Style and Techniques
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), online audio
Item no.: 342192
Bass Play-Along Volume 50
Eight Jaco Pastorius Hits for Bass
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with tabs), online playback
Item no.: 661731
Bass Play-Along
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with tabs), online audio
Item no.: 658729
A linear approach for 4-, 5- and 6- string bass
Includes 99 Audio Examples and Exercises
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, online audio
Item no.: 211107
A Beginner's Guide, Featuring Step-By-Step Lessons with Audio, Video, and Popular Songs!
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, online audio
Item no.: 678468
(Recorded Version)
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 342247
Bass Play Along Volume 10
Play all 12 Songs with a tab and Sound-alike CD Tracks
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with tabs), online audio
Item no.: 477822
Hal Leonard Bass Method
for: Bass guitar
Buch + CD + DVD
Item no.: 811171
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with tabs), online audio
Item no.: 225317
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with tabs), online audio
Item no.: 696236
Ausgabe für Bassgitarre
Buch & DVD
for: Bass guitar
Sheet music, DVD
Item no.: 649546
Bass Builders
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 603457
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online playback
Item no.: 671436
Eine Einführung in Rock und Pop-Styles, Technik, Sound und Ausrüstung
for: Bass guitar
Item no.: 555257
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 1633593
Bass Builders
for: Bass guitar
Buch + CD
Item no.: 180168
Progressive Beginner
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD, DVD
Item no.: 960869
Progressive
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD
Item no.: 960772
Bass Instruction
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 808715
Lick Library
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 1531517
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 Recorded Versions
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 649905
Heavy Metal Pyrotechnics Meet the Bass Guitar
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (standard notation and tabs), CD
Item no.: 635646
A Practical Approach To The Pentatonic Scales World For 4 And 5 String
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs)
Item no.: 550094
Sudien und Übungen
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 847278