“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 (with tabs), online playback
Item no.: 478267
for: Double bass [bass guitar]
Music lesson book
Item no.: 1736644
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 1352536
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 313576
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 302594
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 465156
Bass Play-Along Volume 4
Play 8 Of Your Favourite Songs With Tab And Sound-Alike CD Tracks
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs), Playback-CD
Item no.: 554759
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with tabs), online audio
Item no.: 677107
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
(Teaching material)
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (standard notation and tabs), playback-CD
Item no.: 579829
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 273036
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book
Item no.: 251995
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), online audio
Item no.: 581932
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
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for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 464232
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, online playback
Item no.: 671443
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 827681
for: Bass guitar
Bass Tab
Item no.: 1024703
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Bass Tab
Item no.: 1024693
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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.: 214282
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online playback
Item no.: 671440
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 1169330
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), online video
Item no.: 674638
Hal Leonard Bass Method
for: Double bass [bass guitar]
Music lesson book, online audio
Item no.: 683256
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 351063
for: Double bass [bass guitar]
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 479880
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs), Playback-CD
Item no.: 464328
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 470374
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 470067
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs), Playback-CD
Item no.: 469937
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book
Item no.: 100350
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), online media
Item no.: 100351
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 323121
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
Buch + CD
Item no.: 312396
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs)
Item no.: 398883
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 277013
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 334312