"I think it would be cool to be able to read sheet music, but it might be a hindrance possibly for the way I play at the moment. "I'll use that to learn it myself on my piano and use my ear to fill in any gaps that I may have missed. "The clip will usually have a tutorial with it or it will just be close ups of someone's hands. George, who is currently studying for his A-levels, said: "I'll discover the piece somewhere online usually, and then I'll look it up on YouTube to see a video of someone playing it. Huge turnout to welcome home soldiers from 1st Battalion The Rifles after tour of Afghanistan.Proud Sarah, a marketing copywriter, from Gloucester, said she still has to remind him how good he is because "he thinks this doesn’t count because he can’t read music". He only did his first public performance in 2012 - on an outdoor piano - but scored 100% in his GCSE music performance. The music genius can play note-perfect complicated concertos by the likes of Chopin, Rachmaninov, Beethoven, all from heart and without sheet music. She offered him proper lessons but shy George shunned all formal tutoring in favour of using YouTube and learning music by ear.
She noticed he was pretty good at making up his own tunes and copying songs he heard, so upgraded him to a proper keyboard a few years later. Self-taught George Townsend, 17, got his first children's toy piano for Christmas from mum Sarah, 50, when he was just five-years-old.
A teenage piano prodigy can play note perfect renditions of the world's most complicated compositions - but can't read sheet music and has never had a lesson.
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