Finding Music (HELP)

[IeuanRees]

Hi, I'm having a bit of a problem finding sheet music. I'm pretty new to the world of bass although I have played a lot of classical up to now, I would like to venture into something more new or even a bit of blues.

My problem is that I really don't know where to look, I've tried my local music store and they only stock classical, and when I try searching online I never seem to get anywhere. If anyone could point me in the right direction that would be a massive help, or if you could link me. Preferably free music and of a relatively simple level. Cheers, Ieuan

[Silvia Bluejay]

You're correct, there isn't much around. This might help a little. I haven't used these sites, so I can't recommend them through experience, but they are among my bookmarks, which means I must have made a search at some point in the past, and come up with them

[url="http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/instruments/bass-guitar/46"]http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/instruments/bass-guitar/46[/url]

[url="http://www.sheetmusicdirect.com/Browse/Arrangement.aspx?category_id=store1_arrangement11"]http://www.sheetmusicdirect.com/Browse/Arrangement.aspx?category_id=store1_arrangement11[/url]
[url="http://www.sheetmusicdirect.com/Browse/Arrangement.aspx?category_id=store1_arrangement28"]http://www.sheetmusicdirect.com/Browse/Arrangement.aspx?category_id=store1_arrangement28[/url]

[url="http://www.sheetmusicscore.com/browse/digital-downloads.phtml?Format=BTAB"]http://www.sheetmusicscore.com/browse/digital-downloads.phtml?Format=BTAB[/url]

I can't see the plugin images on this PC, so I'm not sure whether the sheets are tab-only (horror!!) or notation and tab. Hopefully the latter.

[Happy Jack]

http://www.musicroom.com/argents

[fatback]

Matt Lawton's got a few jazz transcriptions on here.

http://mattlawtonbass.blogspot.co.uk/p/transcriptions.html

Thanks Matt

[Mr Bassman]

A few more transcriptions [url="http://arcellussykesmusic.com/index.php?/transcriptions/"]here[/url] and [url="http://www.lucaspickford.net/transbass.htm"]here[/url]

And [url="http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/184609478X/?tag=hydra0b-21&hvadid=9556678269&ref=asc_df_184609478X"]Real Book[/url] in bass clef

Or just type 'bass transcriptions' into google images

Edited February 11, 2013 by Mr Bassman

[Reuben Javier Phoenix]

[size=4]For Classical stuff I use [b][center]Petrucci Music Library[/center][/b] http://imslp.org/[/size]
For Jazz I use the real books.