“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.
15 transcribed bass lines as played by Paul Gill
Intermediate Jazz Conception
for: Double bass [bass guitar]
Music lesson book, online playback
Item no.: 464699
30 Classical Pieces
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with tabs – anthology)
Item no.: 769302
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 208299
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 484016
for: Bass guitar
Bass Tab
Item no.: 1024688
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs), Playback-CD
Item no.: 668725
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 806125
for: Bass guitar
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 621570
for: Double bass [bass guitar]
Music lesson book
Item no.: 768620
for: Double bass [bass guitar]
Music lesson book (spiral binding), online audio
Item no.: 328396
for: Double bass [bass guitar]
Music lesson book
Item no.: 100349
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, 2 playback CDs
Item no.: 610410
for: Bass guitar
Buch + CD
Item no.: 173011
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), online audio
Item no.: 279063
for: Double bass [bass guitar]
Music score
Item no.: 376228
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 564876
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 810623
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 776940
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 281395
for: Bass guitar
CD
Item no.: 939780
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 972603
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 1215678
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 160254
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 476929
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online playback
Item no.: 430101
for: Bass guitar
Item no.: 108671
for: Bass guitar
Item no.: 153239
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs), Playback-CD
Item no.: 604913
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs), Playback-CD
Item no.: 1198790
for: Bass guitar
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 617383
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 281380
for: Bass guitar, percussion (rhythm section rockband)
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 455940
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD
Item no.: 960810
for: Bass guitar, percussion (rhythm section rockband)
Lesson book (standard notation and tabs), playback-CD
Item no.: 483300
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 827800
Full-Sized Edition
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), online audio
Item no.: 1668688
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, online audio
Item no.: 693693
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 802403
for: Bass guitar
Bass Tab
Item no.: 1024705
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), online video
Item no.: 827895
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 368279
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 669145
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 585807
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 1026925
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 608851
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 580811
for: Double bass [bass guitar]
Music lesson book, 2 playback CDs
Item no.: 328395
This book is a must for the beginning bass player!
All the basic technique of Rock, Soul, Funk, Blues and Reggae, incl. walking bass, double stops and slap/pop (Lehrmaterial) (Teaching material)
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs), Playback-CD
Item no.: 272182