Bit of a dead-end

[Perry]

recently i've been doing a lot of gigging and practicing with the two bands i'm in and everything we play is a cover. My time has been taken up learning a multitude of pretty easy cover songs and then getting them smooth with bands. Recently i have had little/slash no challenge and feel abit bored and at a creative and technique dead-end.Therefore i ask you guys, the majority of whom i repect greatly to help me. Can you suggest good challenging songs, not just slapping or tapping but some good ol' fashion fingerstyle too.
I can slap ok, and i can successfully play Tommy the Cat badly :-p
Tapping is pretty basic, I can play Jerry was a Racecar driver and the intro the DMV (Didn't get to look a the rest of the song)

I will accept any genre, any technique, anything to give a new bass challenge to further my ability.

[kilian]

I think the solution lays in the cover thingy. Stop doing covers (or add a band) and start making your own stuff. It feels better for me to write my own stuff in a band then covering :thumb:

That's why you feel like being in a dead end I think.

[the101er]

"The Duchess and the Proverbial Mindspread" by Primus

Instead of using a standard fingerstyle technique, try 3 fingers, it sounds so much better

Hope that helped :)

[basgitarist]

what about changing the parts of the song?! You don't have to play the same thing the bass player plays in the original recording. There is so much you can change. Take a song, change the parts maybe change the entire genre! Don't put your creativity to waste. Playing covers over and over the same way is just as boring as playing your own songs a million times.