Who Created Rush E? The Story of Sheet Music Boss

Behind the Monolith: Who Created “Rush E” and How It Conquered the Internet

If you have spent any time online over the past few years—whether scrolling through YouTube, TikTok, or watching mobile game playthroughs—you have likely encountered “Rush E.”

Famed as an impossibly chaotic, breakneck piano piece that requires literal thousands of notes per minute, “Rush E” transitioned from a clever internet joke into a global cultural phenomenon. But who is actually behind the madness?

The Creators: Sheet Music Boss

“Rush E” was created by Sheet Music Boss (SMB), an Australian YouTube channel and musical duo consisting of composers Andrew Wrangell and Samuel Dickenson.

Wrangell and Dickenson met while studying composition at university in Brisbane, Australia. In 2017, they launched Sheet Music Boss with a simple mission: to create engaging piano tutorials, MIDI visualizers, and fun arrangements ranging from classic video game themes to meme culture. Little did they know that one of their whimsical composition experiments would become a internet-breaking giant.

The Origin Story: Memes Meet Music

The story of “Rush E” is rooted deeply in internet history, borrowing its conceptual framework from two distinct memes:

1. The “Rush B” Phenomenon: Years before “Rush E,” the gaming community—specifically players of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO)—popularized the frantic instruction to “Rush B,” a meme based on voice-chat stereotypes of Russian players urging their teammates to charge a specific map location. Sheet Music Boss previously played on this by writing Russian-folk-inspired piano pieces heavy on the musical note B.
2. The “E” Meme: Fast-forward to 2018, and internet humor gave birth to the deep-fried “E” meme—a distorted image fusing YouTuber Markiplier’s face onto Lord Farquaad from Shrek, captioned simply with the letter “E”.

Wrangell and Dickenson decided to combine these absurd internet currents into a musical joke. They conceptualized a piece built around the note E, infused with dramatic Russian classical music tropes. Embedded directly into the middle of the chaotic composition is an iconic audio-visual sequence where the notes literally spell out “E,” punctuated by a booming, echoed vocal sample of the letter itself.

From a MIDI Joke to a Global Monster

When Sheet Music Boss first published “Rush E” as a MIDI piano tutorial video, it was designed to look delightfully absurd. The visualizer showed cascading waterfalls of notes so dense, wide, and lightning-fast that no human hand could possibly play them.