“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.: 847825
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 457404
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1109856
for: Bass guitar
Instrumental Solo & Piano Accompaniment
Item no.: 1646018
for: Bass guitar
Instrumental Solo & Piano Accompaniment
Item no.: 1646014
for: Bass guitar
Sheet music, Playback-CD, fingering chart
Item no.: 188016
Din A4 hoch
Groove it|Tabulaturblock
for: Bass guitar
Musicpad
Item no.: 666839
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 827922
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 770765
for: Bass guitar
CD
Item no.: 1165357
for: Bass guitar
CD
Item no.: 1165258
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs), Playback-CD
Item no.: 277389
Bass Play-Along Volume 21
Eight hits of the cult band with online audio
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with tabs), online playback
Item no.: 679093
for: Bass guitar, percussion (rhythm section rockband)
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 248009
18 songs transcribed for bass guitar
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 207350
for: Bass guitar
Buch + CD
Item no.: 1541527
for: Bass guitar
Sheet music, CD, fingering chart
Item no.: 433733
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 328480
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs), Playback-CD
Item no.: 327907
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 209809
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 296444
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 211036
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation, chords and tabs), online play-along
Item no.: 690016
for: Piano, electric guitar, percussion
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1351381
for: Bass guitar
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 167113
Pieces for little ones from the age of five up
for: Voice, double bass [bass guitar]
Music score
Item no.: 655183
Jazz
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 271364
for: Bass guitar
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 216770
for: Bass guitar
Item no.: 215081
for: Bass guitar
Music score, CD
Item no.: 376788
for: Double bass [bass guitar]
Music score, CD
Item no.: 375422
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 939161
for: Bass guitar
Book, DVD
Item no.: 943307
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 948242
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1638419
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 668818
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, CD, DVD
Item no.: 1556415
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD, DVD
Item no.: 972624
for: Bass guitar
CD
Item no.: 972566
for: Bass guitar
Buch + CD + DVD
Item no.: 1591573
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1208601
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 807945
for: Bass guitar
Music score, CD
Item no.: 1549597
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 342015
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 803892
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with tabs), online playback
Item no.: 667209
for: Bass guitar
Item no.: 1676829
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 828134