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As you can see, there are a lot of opinions on this particular issue. The only thing that I can tell you is not to be frustrated: No one was born knowing (Ok, maybe Jaco :D). If you're better now, trust your teacher, he sounds like he knows what he is doing and getting you in the right place.

I would be thinking "hey that's great, I just missed two notes of the whole song". Correct that and keep on learning.

You need to do a lot of listening, work on endurance and download some jungle grooves to play along. Or, of course, listen to John, he is the man. Awesome work with Nerve

+ 1, angling your Wrist will make your playing mistakes even more bigger, I would reccomend you not to grow your fingernails, it can give you feel troubles.

I think that you should start doing some arpegios using the thumb and the 3. If you play a 6 string bass, try to find some arrangements in a chord melody oriented way, take it to the thumb and the 3.

Thanks for all the advices, I'm starting to improve, yesterday I recorded myself and there were moments that I did it pretty jazzy, I relaxed and focused on 2 and 4, that helped me not to sound like a robot. About Jimmy Garrison lines, I love when he plays a line that's not walking, like the...

I've started to play jazz about 2 years ago, and still my walking lines feel too blues oriented (that's my background) and not so jazzy as it should feel. I'm practicing a lot but I think that what I'm doing wrong is the feel that I'm giving it. Has anyone been through this? What did you...

Scar Tissue by the RHCP is an easy and lovely song. It gots a great bridge (kinda solo). Or grab a James Brown tune and play the bass lines!!!

I've found out this when i was working on a Sly and The Family Stone tune, in which Larry Graham stopped the bass just a 16th. note before the snare. I tried this on one of my band songs and sounded awesome. Since then I do this thing almost of the time