Sonic Surprises Sheet Music Series

An exploration of songs that have been requested by fans on YouTube that turned out to be surprisingly popular!

This post is part one of the Sonic Surprises Sheet Music Series.
Sonic Surprises Sheet Music Series

Sonic Surprises Sheet Music Series:

I get a lot of requests for piano arrangements from fans on YouTube, piano teachers, and beyond. I do my best to honor requests that I feel will be well-suited for the piano.

Sometimes I’m familiar with the songs and sometimes they’re totally new to me. I never know beforehand whether or not a piano solo arrangement will actually sell and I’ve had a lot of sonic surprises along the way. I thought it would be fun to start featuring some of these tunes. They might be new to you and they might not!

This series of articles will include:

  1. Songs that I knew of, became more acquainted with through the arranging process, and want other people to fall in love with as well.

  2. Requested songs that I had never heard, but grew to love through the process of arranging them.

  3. Songs that I didn’t know and that I doubted would ever sell to anyone other than the requester, but turned out to be hugely popular!

Hopefully this series will help you discover some new tunes along the way!


👋 Want to play along? Drop me a request in the comments that you think might be a “sonic surprise”!



Jennifer Eklund
Written by Jennifer Eklund
Jennifer Eklund holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in music from California State University, Long Beach. She is an avid arranger, composer, and author of the Piano Pronto® method books series as well as a wide variety of supplemental songbooks. She is also a Signature Artist with Musicnotes.com with a large catalog of popular music titles for musicians of all levels.

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