I'd actually suggest concentrating more on your hand speed... A lot of the time, in punk anyway, it's not your bass thats holding you back but your hands.
Here's a little exercise I do:
Find a tempo you can play 16ths at with one hand.
Set it on your metronome and start it.
Subdivide through all the note values starting at quarters and working your way up. i.e. (quarters [1,2,3,4], 8ths [1+2+3+4+], triplets, 16ths, pentuplets, sextuplets, 32nds) and then back down again.
Once you can play it comfortably at that tempo, you should notch it up 5 or 10 bpm.
Hope that helps,
HB58
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