“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 (with standard notation, tabs and chord charts), playback CD (mp3), DVD
Item no.: 771472
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, DVD
Item no.: 641436
Méthode de lecture des notes à la basse
200 exercices pour apprendre à lire à la basse
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), playback-CD (mp3)
Item no.: 766440
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), playback-CD (mp3), DVD
Item no.: 766463
Métier & Variété
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (standard notation and tabs), playback-CD
Item no.: 766201
Funk & Soul
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 765063
De snelle weg tot succes
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (standard notation and tabs), playback-CD
Item no.: 667902
Méthodes instrumentales
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (standard notation and tabs), playback-CD
Item no.: 610692
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, DVD
Item no.: 767113
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), playback-CD, DVD
Item no.: 766654
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 348839
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), playback-CD (mp3), DVD
Item no.: 765470
Das gesammelte Wissen der Profis
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), Demo CD
Item no.: 132058
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), DVD
Item no.: 583007
for: Winds class [bass guitar]
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 662789
Slap–Kurs für Bassgitarre
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), playback-CD, DVD
Item no.: 611932
Guida allo studio del basso elettrico
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 771289
Alle wichtigen Tonleitern im Überblick!
Poster plano/gerollt.
for: Bass guitar
Fingering chart (Poster)
Item no.: 268820
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, DVD
Item no.: 1024916
L'Histoire des Styles et des Techniques à travers le mond
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, 2 playback CDs
Item no.: 609463
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 565252
Basix
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (standard notation and tabs), playback-CD
Item no.: 767105
Tecnica e diteggiature
Elementi fondamentali armonici e melodici
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book
Item no.: 1053319
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), Demo CD
Item no.: 765633
Un ouvrage dédié aux bassistes désireux de s’initier et d’approfondir tous les aspects du jeu rock
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (standard notation and tabs), playback-CD
Item no.: 766461
for: Double bass [bass guitar]
Music lesson book, CD (mp3)
Item no.: 766209
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 678239
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), DVD
Item no.: 763946
Les fondamentaux de la basse, différentes techniques de jeu, exercices de doigts
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (standard notation and tabs), playback-CD
Item no.: 767090
Corso completo per principianti
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), DVD
Item no.: 766263
for: Bass guitar
Music score
Item no.: 641430
Volume 1
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, online media
Item no.: 1556409
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), playback-CD (mp3), DVD
Item no.: 638908
Gli stili e i grooves che hanno fatto la storia del rock
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 767442
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), DVD
Item no.: 769070
40 accompagnements simples
120 enregistrements audios et vidéos
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), DVD
Item no.: 767767
Ear training
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 772353
Blues Sessions
for: Bass guitar
Study book, CD
Item no.: 1549298
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), DVD
Item no.: 772406
for: Bass guitar
Playback-CD, booklet (educational book)
Item no.: 1208647
Learn the techniques that every true great bass player needs to know - one on one lessons with Chris as he shows you how to apply techniques used by Larry Graham and Louis Johnson.
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 405076
Rock-grooves en basline
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, online audio
Item no.: 668963
for: Bass guitar
Item no.: 336958
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), DVD
Item no.: 552537
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 552966
Introduzione alla tecnica del Walkin' Bass
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 766395
Une méthode complète avec photos
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (standard notation and tabs), playback-CD
Item no.: 348894
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, DVD
Item no.: 635541