“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
Bass Tab
Item no.: 1024658
for: Bass guitar
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 1714097
for: Bass guitar, percussion (rhythm section rockband)
Music score (with TABs), Playback-CD
Item no.: 206248
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 774971
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 606701
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with tabs), online playback
Item no.: 604701
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs), 2 CDs
Item no.: 581416
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs), Playback-CD
Item no.: 554757
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 136561
for: Bass guitar
Item no.: 414776
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs), Playback-CD
Item no.: 245169
for: Bass guitar
Item no.: 1660144
per basso elettrico
for: Bass guitar
Music score, CD
Item no.: 658633
Schule
for: Bass guitar
Buch + CD
Item no.: 1164727
Sudien und Übungen
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 1591549
Pieces for little ones from the age of five up
for: Voice, double bass [bass guitar]
Music score
Item no.: 1661583
Jazz
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 395648
Jazz
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 271366
Schule
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 271363
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 847913
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD
Item no.: 945176
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 944435
for: Bass guitar
Book, DVD
Item no.: 948395
for: Bass guitar
Book, DVD
Item no.: 938956
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs), Playback-CD
Item no.: 552571
for: Bass guitar
Item no.: 157032
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs), Playback-CD
Item no.: 189857
for: Bass guitar
Music score, CD
Item no.: 271151
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with tabs), online audio
Item no.: 580211
(Recorded Version)
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 375483
Bass Play-Along
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with tabs), online playback
Item no.: 684346
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 801632
for: Bass guitar
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 326929
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD
Item no.: 326495
for: Bass guitar
Buch + DVD
Item no.: 1591555
for: Bass guitar
Study book (without notes), CD, online audio
Item no.: 1560415
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 828844
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with tabs), online audio
Item no.: 1198774
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 847934
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 847626
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 847450
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 941132
for: Bass guitar
Instrumental Solo & Piano Accompaniment
Item no.: 1646025
for: Bass guitar
Instrumental Solo & Piano Accompaniment
Item no.: 1645992
for: Bass guitar
CD
Item no.: 1165208
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online playback
Item no.: 673587
for: Bass guitar
[französisch]
Item no.: 341472
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD
Item no.: 1107505