“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
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for: Bass guitar
Fingering chart
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Music lesson book, playback-CD
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for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book
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Music lesson book, DVD
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Essential Elements German Translations
for: Winds class [bass guitar]
Music score, online audio
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Lesson book (standard notation and tabs), playback-CD
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Music lesson book, playback-CD
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Lesson book (standard notation and tabs), playback-CD
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Music lesson book, playback-CD
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Music lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), playback-CD (mp3), DVD
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Music lesson book, playback-CD
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Lesson book (with standard notation, chords and tabs), online play-along
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Lesson book (standard notation and tabs), playback-CD
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Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), DVD
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Music lesson book, DVD
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Music lesson book, playback-CD
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Music lesson book, DVD
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Lesson book (with standard notation, tabs and chord charts), playback CD (mp3), DVD
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Playback-CD (without sheet music)
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Lesson book (standard notation and tabs), playback-CD
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Music lesson book, DVD
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Music lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), playback-CD, DVD
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Music lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), playback-CD (mp3), DVD
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DVD (learning video)
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Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), Demo CD
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Lesson book (standard notation and tabs), playback-CD
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Music lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), playback-CD, DVD
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Music lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), playback-CD (mp3), DVD
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for: Bass guitar
Buch + CD
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for: Double bass [bass guitar]
Lesson book (standard notation and tabs), playback-CD
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DVD (learning video)
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Music lesson book, playback-CD
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Fingering chart (Poster)
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Lesson book (standard notation and tabs), playback-CD
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Music lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), playback-CD, DVD
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Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), Demo CD
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Music lesson book, CD (mp3)
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for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, 2 playback CDs
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for: Winds class [bass guitar]
Music lesson book, playback-CD
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for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
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Music lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), playback-CD (mp3)
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Lesson book (standard notation and tabs), playback-CD
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Tecnica e diteggiature
Elementi fondamentali armonici e melodici
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book
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Blues Sessions
for: Bass guitar
Study book, CD
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for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), DVD
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for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
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