“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: Double bass [bass guitar]
Item no.: 299583
for: Bass guitar
Instrumental Solo & Piano Accompaniment
Item no.: 1646028
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 828887
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with tabs), online audio
Item no.: 206950
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 828912
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs), Playback-CD
Item no.: 467336
for: Bass guitar
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 121915
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD
Item no.: 629932
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 1587136
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 644388
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 847820
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with tabs), online playback
Item no.: 667212
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 636857
for: Double bass [bass guitar]
Music score (with TABs), Playback-CD
Item no.: 622405
for: Bass guitar
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 294125
for: Bass guitar, percussion (rhythm section rockband)
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 491820
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 194997
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with tabs), online audio
Item no.: 601221
Bass Play-Along Volume 14
Play 8 Songs with Tab and Sound-alike CD Tracks
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs), Playback-CD
Item no.: 580210
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 179038
Meccanica e Tecnica della Tastiera
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1160751
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD
Item no.: 1191228
Jazz
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 395649
for: Bass guitar
Item no.: 428787
Music Makes The World Go Round
for: Double bass [bass guitar]
Item no.: 225513
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 466578
for: Bass guitar
Item no.: 469221
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 940825
for: Bass guitar
CD
Item no.: 937370
for: Bass guitar
Buch + DVD
Item no.: 1591585
for: Bass guitar
CD
Item no.: 1208603
for: Bass guitar
Buch
Item no.: 805769
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 342794
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with tabs), online audio
Item no.: 1669377
for: Bass guitar
Book, DVD
Item no.: 847388
Bassist Hellmut Hattler führt mit Noten, Tabulatur und einer selbst eingespielten CD in seine innovative Spieltechnik ein (Lehrmaterial) (Teaching material)
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD, Playback-CD
Item no.: 157089
for: Bass guitar
Music score, CD
Item no.: 622408
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs), Playback-CD
Item no.: 667210
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 827809
for: Bass guitar
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 828777
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 828631
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 972570
for: Bass guitar
Book, CD
Item no.: 948879
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs), Playback-CD
Item no.: 667211
for: Bass guitar
Bass Tab
Item no.: 1024660
for: Bass guitar
Bass Tab
Item no.: 1024629
for: Bass guitar
Instrumental Solo & Piano Accompaniment
Item no.: 1645987
for: Bass guitar
Instrumental Solo & Piano Accompaniment
Item no.: 1645871