Blank bass tab paper
Four-line tablature staves with wider spacing than guitar tab, because bass lines run further up the neck.
Opens with these settings already loaded. Change anything you like, then download as PDF, PNG or SVG.
Wider spacing on purpose
Bass tab uses fewer lines but needs more room between them. Bass playing involves more position shifts and more work above the twelfth fret, which means more two-digit fret numbers, and at guitar spacing those start colliding with neighbouring strings. Four millimetres rather than three fixes it.
Five and six string basses
Extended-range basses add a low B below, or a high C above, or both. Switch the string count to five or six and the stave grows accordingly. The convention stays the same: the lowest-pitched string is the bottom line, which is the reverse of how the strings sit when you look down at the instrument.
What tab cannot tell you
Tab gives you position but not rhythm, and for bass that is a serious omission — a bass line is largely rhythm. Most players write the tab and add note-length marks or a count above it. Leave room for that when you choose your stave spacing.
Printing it accurately
This only measures correctly if your printer doesn't rescale the page. In the print dialog set Scale: 100% — not "Fit to page" or "Shrink oversized pages". If you're not sure it worked, print the calibration page, measure the ruler on it with a real ruler, and it will tell you exactly what your printer is doing to the page.