Artists

Me and my teacher: Dan Styffe and Gary Karr

2019-10-28T16:00:00

Styffe

The double bass virtuoso taught Styffe how to control the pressures of the world outside the teaching studio

I started on the violin and the electric bass. I didn’t play the double bass until I was 17 and then it was by mistake. I went to music school to learn the electric bass and get into jazz and rock, but they didn’t have a teacher for that, only a double bass one – Göran Nyberg. I took one lesson and that was it...

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