“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
Lesson book (standard notation and tabs), playback-CD
Item no.: 348425
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 302594
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 273036
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 465156
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 1352536
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book (with chord charts)
Item no.: 778008
for: Bass guitar
Buch + CD + DVD
Item no.: 1591576
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with tabs), online audio
Item no.: 677107
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 313576
500 Grooves - All Styles - All Levels
Hal Leonard Bass Method
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), online audio
Item no.: 674748
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book
Item no.: 251995
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), online media
Item no.: 691178
for: Bass guitar
Buch + DVD
Item no.: 1591563
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD, DVD
Item no.: 960755
for: Double bass [bass guitar]
Music lesson book, online playback
Item no.: 693303
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 827681
for: Bass guitar
Bass Tab
Item no.: 1024703
for: Bass guitar
Bass Tab
Item no.: 1024693
for: Bass guitar
Bass Tab
Item no.: 1024686
for: Bass guitar
Bass Tab
Item no.: 1024679
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 364725
for: Bass guitar
Book, DVD
Item no.: 810447
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 681936
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 630445
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online playback
Item no.: 671443
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online playback
Item no.: 671440
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book
Item no.: 100350
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 351063
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs), Playback-CD
Item no.: 469937
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs), Playback-CD
Item no.: 464328
for: Double bass [bass guitar]
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 479880
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 470374
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), online media
Item no.: 100351
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 277013
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs)
Item no.: 398883
Music Instruction
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation, chords and tabs), online play-along
Item no.: 319189
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 334312
for: Bass guitar
Buch + CD
Item no.: 312396
The music of Metallica in a comprehensive play-along package. Includes note-for- note transcriptions and detailed performance advice for classic licks, fills, riffs and solos.
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (standard notation and tabs), playback-CD
Item no.: 228766
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online playback
Item no.: 214282
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 323121
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 319168
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 464232
for: Guitar [Bass guitar]
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 144919
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 550097
Hal Leonard Bass Method
for: Double bass [bass guitar]
Music lesson book, online audio
Item no.: 683256
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 470067
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), online audio
Item no.: 581932