Hang tight. Although this really sucks
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The dreaded G string!
I already hate G strings in non-bass related scenarios, but this is driving me crazy now.
I am practicing two songs that want me to play G9-DG-G9 or D7-G7-D7:
So: playing the same fret but on two adjacent strings.
Talk Talk - Renée
And
Gabriels - Blame
When palying it never sounds clean. Sometimes G is muted. Sometimes they are played with a different volume, sometimes they both ring.
I s#ck!
I tried different techniques: playing both with the same finger (the “Josh method”, as taught on B2B), playing them with pinky and ring finger (which allows me to play the next note quickly with my index finger). Only when I use index finger and middle finger it sounds good. But than the “flow” is broken, eg there is a too long pause when playing the next note with my index finger.
Playing something like D7-A7-D7 is better, but not good enough.
Everything I do on the G string s#cks … at least when playing bass.
Why, oh why?
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I had completely forgotten about Talk Talk. I spent the '80s in a delightful cloud of smoke, so I built an Amazon Music playlist of their 5 studio albums to help me revisit that time. Thanks for the reminder!
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They are great - and “Renée” is a cool fretless song!
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My challenge: avoiding buzz/ringing strings! Working on left hand fingering to try to mute them.
@TheMaartian - oh, and if you like fretless: listen to the “Rain Tree Crow” allbum. That’s David Sylvian (from the band “Japan”). His (first) solo albums are also very good!
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Yeah Beautiful Trees is great.
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I prefer “Secrets of the Beehive” to “Brilliant Trees”.
Also, it has “Forbidden Colours” (with Ryuichi Sakamoto.) as a bonus track.
Ahh yeah, Brilliant, not Beautiful. Oops 
Regardless all his stuff is neat. Very different.
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Of all the weird things to be struggling with, this root fifth octave bit at the end of this measure has been kicking my butt the last few days. Like I can normally play a root-fifth-octave without an issue, but suddenly I’m failing at it. My pinkie will hit the fifth or the octave, but not both.
You might consider trying playing the fifth and octave by rolling your ring finger from one to the other rather than employing your little finger.
Don’t know if this will work for you, but it sure does for me