“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
Music score
Item no.: 460299
for: Double bass [bass guitar]
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 187929
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 641680
for: Bass guitar
Music book, 2 CDs
Item no.: 563301
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 641515
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 615277
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs), Playback-CD
Item no.: 560763
(Recorded Version)
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 193921
for: Bass guitar
Book, DVD
Item no.: 1355795
for: Bass guitar
Item no.: 192487
Jazz
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 270808
Find your individual way to play the bass guitar (Lehrmaterial) (Teaching material)
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD
Item no.: 401025
for: Bass guitar
Music score, CD
Item no.: 550997
for: Bass guitar
Item no.: 223541
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 940167
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 940475
for: Bass guitar
CD-ROM
Item no.: 939760
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 944053
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs), Playback-CD
Item no.: 461295
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs), Playback-CD
Item no.: 358308
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 583018
for: Bass guitar
Buch + CD
Item no.: 1354188
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD
Item no.: 1208623
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD
Item no.: 1208612
for: Bass guitar
Book, DVD
Item no.: 1208610
for: Bass guitar
Music score (anthology), Playback-CD
Item no.: 764893
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 797865
for: Bass guitar
Book, DVD
Item no.: 488380
for: Bass guitar
Book, online media
Item no.: 1689546
for: Bass guitar
Buch + CD
Item no.: 617268
Bass Play-Along Volume 2
Rhyrthm and Blues, 8 of your favorite songs with tablature and sound-alike CD tracks
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with tabs), online audio
Item no.: 478334
for: Bass guitar
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 331719
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs), Playback-CD
Item no.: 368673
for: Bass guitar
Book, DVD
Item no.: 1008499
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 820583
for: Double bass [bass guitar]
Item no.: 173314
for: Bass guitar
Book, Playback-CD
Item no.: 583931
for: Bass guitar
Instrumental Solo & Piano Accompaniment
Item no.: 1646068
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs), Playback-CD
Item no.: 583003
for: Bass guitar
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 190628
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs), Playback-CD
Item no.: 459729
for: Bass guitar
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 646960
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 414900
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with tabs), online audio
Item no.: 655706
for: Bass guitar
Buch + CD
Item no.: 648165
for: Bass guitar, percussion (rhythm section rockband)
Music score
Item no.: 180056
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs), Playback-CD
Item no.: 580209
for: Double bass [bass guitar]
Item no.: 100347