“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.
(Recorded Version)
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs)
Item no.: 626098
Qwikguide
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs), Playback-CD
Item no.: 300049
Steve Bailey & Victor Wooten
(DVD)
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 143429
Bass
for: Bass guitar
Fingering chart
Item no.: 468258
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), playback-CD (mp3), DVD
Item no.: 771371
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), DVD
Item no.: 552541
Basics
Die neue Schule für Elektrobass
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 217006
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with online media)
Item no.: 687715
Die komplette Jazzstil- und Improvisationsmethode für Bands und Blasorchester
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, online audio
Item no.: 1672364
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book (with chord charts), playback-CD
Item no.: 780680
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, DVD
Item no.: 765313
Méthode pour l'apprentissage de la walking bass
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), playback-CD, DVD
Item no.: 766441
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 767009
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, DVD
Item no.: 767661
Non c'è niente di più facile...
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 1031494
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, DVD
Item no.: 1549274
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (standard notation and tabs), CD, DVD
Item no.: 765518
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 764895
Pour 5 & 6 cordes
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book (with chord charts)
Item no.: 764338
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 663193
Colección de líneas de bajo estilo años setenta
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (standard notation), playback-CD, DVD
Item no.: 767561
Ear training
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), playback-CD (mp3)
Item no.: 769023
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 973025
Metodo per Basso Elettrico
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 972898
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (standard notation and tabs), playback-CD
Item no.: 767660
Méthode d'initiation
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 766717
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), DVD
Item no.: 767051
950 chord diagrams
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs)
Item no.: 766113
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, CD (mp3)
Item no.: 1340646
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 172102
for: Bass guitar
DVD, booklet (educational book)
Item no.: 767301
An Alfred Handy Guide
for: Bass guitar
Study book
Item no.: 469147
Studi Funk per Basso Elettrico
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with tabs), online audio
Item no.: 972984
Bass-Gitarre & Schlagzeug
Play Music Publishing
for: Bass guitar, percussion (rhythm section rockband)
Lesson book (standard notation and tabs), playback-CD
Item no.: 611931
Auf dem Weg zum Jazz I
Jazz-Pizzicato/Skalen/Arco/Hohes Lagenspiel/Tango Argentino (Lehrmaterial) (Teaching material)
for: Double bass [bass guitar]
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 582593
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 400224
Grooves e Assoli
Blues Rock Metal Funk...
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), Demo CD (mp3)
Item no.: 766277
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, online audio
Item no.: 1552156
Instructional-Bass-DVD
for: Bass guitar
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 363664
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), Demo CD
Item no.: 375301
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), DVD
Item no.: 770944
40 lignes de basse évolutives et progessives
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), DVD
Item no.: 764535
für Vier- und Fünfsaiter
(mit Grifftabelle)
for: Bass guitar
Music score (with TABs), Playback-CD
Item no.: 677333
Le scale del basso in tutte le tonalità
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (standard notation and tabs), CD, DVD
Item no.: 765759
Italian Book, CD & DVD
for: Bass guitar
Music score, CD, DVD
Item no.: 659142
Rhythm 'n' Blues, Soul and Funk Grooves
including DVD – More than six hours of musical practice
for: Bass guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), DVD
Item no.: 682626
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, CD-Rom
Item no.: 764735
for: Bass guitar
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 772657