Bass freakin sucks. I started out as bass. You're a tool (as a bass player). When has rock or any other style been based around the bass instrument? Even if you do end up learning advanced slap techniques, when are you going to implement them (or be allowed to implement them) and how much more is there to learn in bass playing techniques? When do bass players ever get hired besides as a fill in because the original bass player died of boredom. If you want control of the music play guitar. Unless it's the 60s and your name is Jack Bruce. That guy was cool.

(Buy a beginners book for guitar, buy tab books for your favorite albums (you don't want internet tabs until you know the difference) and mimick them. But don't mimick anybody after 1990. Then mimick other people. That's how you learn.)