“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.
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for: Bass guitar
Bass Tab
Item no.: 1024705
Progressive
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD
Item no.: 960810
Progressive
from Beginner to Advanced Student
for: Bass guitar, percussion (rhythm section rockband)
Lesson book (standard notation and tabs), playback-CD
Item no.: 483300
Hal Leonard Bass Method
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 455819
for: Bass guitar
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 350651
Bass Instruction
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 802403
Bass Builders
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 215994
Berklee Guide
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 608851
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
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs), Playback-CD
Item no.: 276784
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
Hal Leonard Bass Method
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 212222
Prüfungsliteratur
for: Bass guitar
Buch + CD
Item no.: 455741
Starter Series DVD
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 366674
A Quick and Easy Introduction for Beginners
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 801693
Bass Instruction
for: Bass guitar
Buch + CD
Item no.: 806852
Instructional-Bass-DVD
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 215624
Instructional-Bass-DVD
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 177486
Bass Builders
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 277450
Musicians Institute
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 601704
Musicians Institute
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 560462
Bass
for: Bass guitar
Book, DVD
Item no.: 820523
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
Eine Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitung zum erfolgreichen E-Bass-Spiel
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 362159
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
Hal Leonard Bass Method
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 319167
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 1556659
Created Especially For Bassists
for bass (4-string and 5-string)
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs)
Item no.: 472683
Guitar Educational
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 476849
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
Pop und Rock
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 827602
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
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
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
Bass Instruction
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 168733
a world history of styles and techniques
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), 3 CDs
Item no.: 775924
Prüfungsliteratur
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 1169326
Prüfungsliteratur
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 1169324
Prüfungsliteratur
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 1169329
ABC of Bass Guitar
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 675050
Play Along with 8 Great-Sounding Tracks
Ultimate Play-Along
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with tabs), 2 Playback-CDs
Item no.: 847868
for: Bass guitar
Songbook (with standard notation and TABs)
Item no.: 174277
At a Glance
for: Bass guitar
Book, DVD
Item no.: 806146
Hal Leonard Bass Method
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 582625