Teen with perfect ear masters piano pieces in hours

A British teenager can memorise the most complex piano pieces in a matter of hours.

Although 19-year-old Samuel Osmond doesn't know how to read music and has never been taught to play the instrument, he has astounded tutors by playing Chopin and Beethoven perfectly, simply by remembering the notes.

He learns excruciatingly difficult pieces by listening to them in sections before committing them to memory and is currently tackling Chopin's 'Ballarde No 1 in G Minor', which even the world's most experienced musicians struggle to play.

Samuel said: "It comes easily to me - I hear the notes and can memorise them - each individual note. Recently I did a performance of a Chopin piece in public.

"It's 10 minutes long and must have over 1,000 notes in it but I had committed it to memory."