I don't know

No.

To expand on Tim's answer a slight bit - No, but knowing rhythm is very important. A good bass player is as essential to a band as a good drummer and the emphasis is more on rhythm than on the number of notes one plays.

Playing bass is fun and falls into one of those "easy to get started, challenging to get good and impossible to put the instrument down" categories. Many rhythm guitarists pick up the bass and it often improves their rhythm playing, usually by driving home the point that you don't have to strum a lot to have good rhythm. Usually sparse patterns are much more interesting and fun to play than constant eighth or sixteenth notes.

Hope this helps and definitely give it a whirl! You can even start by simply playing bass parts on your current guitar (obviously using just the four low strings).

Peace

Another positive I have found - With a good bass amp and a guitar with decent pickups, you can get a really awesome clean tone. I play a strat copy thru my Ashdown 180 bass watt amp and it is great.

One downside - when you have a G.A.S. attack, you might just end up being in double trouble. I have bought two new basses in the last month. Oh, well, that's why I work my behind off at work, so I can afford to have G.A.S.

Thanks for the answers people ..

and yes David you did help me .. I might just try a little bass on my Electric and record it then try to play rhythmn over the top ...

One never knows I might be able to pull this off ... :oops:

Cheers and thanks

Hilch :?: