“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: Winds class [bass guitar]
Single part (educational)
Item no.: 694410
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, online media
Item no.: 1655358
for: Bass guitar
Buch + CD
Item no.: 1017817
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD
Item no.: 886369
A Study In Contemporary Music For The Bass
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD
Item no.: 1106296
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 432054
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 488988
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1547319
Sudien und Übungen
for: Bass guitar
Musikkasette
Item no.: 1594938
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD
Item no.: 487114
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 361141
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD
Item no.: 443840
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD
Item no.: 456718
for: Winds class [bass guitar]
Single part (educational), online media
Item no.: 586730
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 465158
for: Winds class [bass guitar]
Single part (educational)
Item no.: 692031
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 433124
for: Winds class [bass guitar]
Single part (educational)
Item no.: 668320
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 492750
Sudien und Übungen
for: Bass guitar
CD
Item no.: 1593919
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 1637210
for: Winds class [bass guitar]
Single part (educational), online media
Item no.: 688221
for: Bass guitar
Book, DVD
Item no.: 1198703
Easy to read diagrams with fingering chart
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 972455
Schule
for: Bass guitar
Buch + CD
Item no.: 972799
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 972623
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 972578
for: Bass guitar
Music score, CD
Item no.: 1591204
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 972701
for: Bass guitar
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 177293
for: Bass guitar
Item no.: 170547
for: Bass guitar
Study book, CD
Item no.: 972871
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD
Item no.: 1208562
For Guitar Classes of Varying Levels of Ability
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1016265
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 937727
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD, DVD
Item no.: 1208544
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs), Playback-CD
Item no.: 780612
for: Bass guitar
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 1017815
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD
Item no.: 1208576
for: Bass guitar
Buch + CD + DVD
Item no.: 1354172
2014
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1591700
Duets, trios and quartets for flexible instrumentation
correlated with "Accent on Achievement 1"
for: Winds class [bassoon/bass guitar]
Single part
Item no.: 692085
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 191396
for: Bass guitar
Book, DVD
Item no.: 1340947
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD
Item no.: 226278
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 844388
for: Bass guitar
Item no.: 199147
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD, DVD
Item no.: 1208543