“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, online audio
Item no.: 334312
Music Instruction
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation, chords and tabs), online play-along
Item no.: 319189
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 319168
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, CD, online audio
Item no.: 1678371
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, online video
Item no.: 769781
The Language of Music and how to speak it
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), online video
Item no.: 1681594
for: Bass guitar
Buch + CD + DVD
Item no.: 1591582
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 1352478
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), Demo CD
Item no.: 342249
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD, DVD
Item no.: 960925
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD, DVD
Item no.: 960865
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD
Item no.: 375298
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 827900
for: Bass guitar
Bass Tab
Item no.: 1024690
for: Bass guitar
Bass Tab
Item no.: 1024680
for: Bass guitar
Bass Tab
Item no.: 1024676
for: Bass guitar
Study book
Item no.: 229199
for: Bass guitar
Buch + CD
Item no.: 455851
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 1169332
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 1532810
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), online media
Item no.: 687791
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 616390
for: Guitar, bass guitar
Music score (with TABs), Playback-CD
Item no.: 622083
for: Bass guitar
Study book (with guitar tabs)
Item no.: 657689
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 323120
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 362442
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book
Item no.: 470209
for: Bass guitar
Buch + CD
Item no.: 398879
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 151784
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 248111
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 245331
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book
Item no.: 227978
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 164822
Learn How to Play the Right Way!
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), online video
Item no.: 693342
Prüfungsliteratur
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 1169327
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with tabs), 2 Playback-CDs
Item no.: 847500
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 1354785
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 1169328
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 828014
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book
Item no.: 693083
for: Bass guitar
Bass Tab
Item no.: 1024702
for: Bass guitar
Bass Tab
Item no.: 1024701
for: Bass guitar
Bass Tab
Item no.: 1024677
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, online video
Item no.: 678630
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 370053
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, online audio
Item no.: 328535
The Bass is fundamental to all forms of music, and being a versatile and accomplished player has never been so important.
for: Bass guitar
Study book
Item no.: 330059
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs)
Item no.: 344624