Ruel Morales

Ruel Morales is a dedicated performer, teacher, arranger and composer in Vancouver. He holds a Bachelor of Music from UBC with a major in Classical Guitar performance and a minor in Composition. While classically trained in guitar and piano, Ruel is also well versed in blues, jazz, fingerstyle, pop, rock and folk music. Unique features with his playing are his 7 string acoustic guitar, original fingerstyle arrangements and his elaborate live looping.


STYLE(S): pop, classical, fingerstyle, rock, blues, jazz, Latin

INSTRUMENTAL or VOCAL: instrumental

OTHER CONFIGURATIONS: Can also perform as a duo or trio

Ruel Morales is a dedicated performer, teacher, arranger and composer in Vancouver. He holds a Bachelor of Music from UBC with a major in Classical Guitar performance and a minor in Composition. While classically trained in guitar and piano, Ruel is also well versed in blues, jazz, fingerstyle, pop, rock and folk music. Unique features with his playing are his 7 string acoustic guitar, original fingerstyle arrangements and his elaborate live looping.


STYLE(S): pop, classical, fingerstyle, rock, blues, jazz, Latin

INSTRUMENTAL or VOCAL: instrumental

OTHER CONFIGURATIONS: Can also perform as a duo or trio

Video samples
Repertoire/Song list

Solo Guitar – Repertoire

POP/LATIN/JAZZ
59th Street Bridge Song (Simon & Garfunkel)
A Thousand Years (Christina Perri)
All of Me (John Legend)
All You Need is Love (The Beatles)
And I Love Her (The Beatles)
At Last (Etta James)
Autumn Leaves (Kosma/Prevert)
Beauty and the Beast (Alan Menken & Howard Ashman)
Better Together (Jack Johnston)
Blackbird (The Beatles)
Bookends (Simon & Garfunkel)
Bridge Over Trouble Waters (Paul Simon)
Can You Feel the Love Tonight (Elton John)
Can’t Help Falling in Love with You (Elvis)
Crazy Love (Michael Buble)
Everything (Michael Buble)
Fields of Gold (Sting)
Fire & Rain (James Taylor)
Fly Me to the Moon (Bart Howard)
From This Moment (Shania Twain)
Gentle Rain (Bonfa)
Georgia On My Mind (H. Carmichael)
Girl From Ipanema (Jobim)
Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen)
Harvest Moon (Neil Young)
Here Comes the Sun (The Beatles)
Home (Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros)
Home (Michael Buble)
Home (Philip Philips)
I’m Yours (Jason Mraz)
In A Sentimental Mood (Duke Ellignton)
In My Life (The Beatles)
Killing Me Softly (The Fugees)
La Vie en Rose (Edith Piaf)
Lean on Me (Bill Withers)
Let Her Go (Passenger)
Locked Out Of Heaven (Bruno Mars)
Love Me Tender (Elvis)
Lovesong (Adele)
Make Me Feel Your Love (Billy Joel)
Manha de Carnival (Bonfa)
Marry Me (Train)
Marry You (Bruno Mars)
Misty (Errol Garner)
Moon River (Henry Mancini)
Moondance (Van Morrison)
One Note Samba (Jobim)
Perfect (Ed Sheeran)
Right Here Waiting (Richard Marx)
River Flows in You (Yiruma)
She Will Be Loved (Maroon 5)
So Nice (Jobim)
Somewhere Over the Rainbow (Harold Arlen)
Stand By Me (Ben E. King)
Such Great Heights (Iron and Wine)
Sunrise (Norah Jones)
Sweet Child of Mine (Guns N’ Roses)
Tears in Heaven (Eric Clapton)
The Rain Song (Led Zeppelin)
The Wind and the Wheat (Phil Keaggy)
Thinking Out Loud (Ed Sheeran)
Time After Time (Cyndi Lauper)
True Colors (Cyndi Lauper)
Vincent (Starry, Starry Night) (Don McClean)
Viva La Vida (Coldplay)
What a Wonderful World (Louis Armstrong)
When I’m Sixty-Four (Lennon/McCartney)
When You Wish Upon a Star (Leigh Harline)
When You’re Smiling (Louie Armstrong)
Wonderful Tonight (Eric Clapton)
Yellow (Coldplay)
Yesterday (The Beatles)
You Are The Reason (Callum Scott)
You Raise Me Up (Lovland/Graham)
You’re Beautiful (James Blunt)
Your Song (Elton John)

POP/LATIN/JAZZ (LOOPED)
Call Me Maybe (Carly Rae Jepsen)
Cater 2 U (Destiny’s Child)
Chan Chan (Buena Vista Social Club)
Daughters (John Mayer)
Dreams (Fleetwood Mac)
Electric Feel (MGMT)
Fast Car (Tracy Chapman)
Fields of Gold – (Sting)
Free Fallin (Tom Petty)
Hey Ya (Outkast)
Holocene (Bon Iver)
It’s Not True (William Fitzimmons)
Kids (MGMT)
Kill Bill
Learning to Fly (Tom Petty)
Like a Star (Corinne Bailey Rae)
Love you down (Inoj)
Lovers in a Dangerous Time (Bruce Cockburn)
Miss You (Rolling Stones)
My Love (Justin Timberlake)
Nothin’ On You (B.O.B.)
Officially Missing You (Tamia)
One Sunday Morning (Wilco)
Pumped Up Kicks (Foster the People)
Senorita (Justin Timberlake)
Strong Enough (Sheryl Crow)
Sweet Dreams (Beyonce)
Teenage Dream (Katy Perry)
Umbrella (Rihanna)
Walt Grace’s Submarine Test (John Mayer)
With Or Without You (U2)

CLASSICAL/SPANISH GUITAR
A Casinha Pequenina (Spanish Traditional)
Adelita (Tarrega)
Air on a G String (J.S. Bach)
Alman (R. Johnson)
Ave Maria (F. Schubert)
Bridal Chorus (Richard Wagner)
Canon in D (Johann Pachelbel)
Cello Prelude in D BWV 1007 (J.S. Bach)
Gabriel’s Oboe (E. Marricone)
Greensleeves (Anonymous)
Gymnopedie – (Erik Satie)
Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring (J.S. Bach)
Julia Florida (Barrios)
Jupiter Theme (Holst)
Lagrima (Tarrega)
Maria Luisa: Mazurka (Julio Sagreras)
Nostalgia: Petite Melodie (Spanish Traditional)
Ode to Joy (Beethoven)
Prelude No. 1 BWV 846 (J.S. Bach)
Spanish Romance (Anonymous)
Trumpet Tune (Purcell)
Trumpet Voluntary (Purcell)
Valsinha Da Sexta-Feira (Spanish Traditional)
Venezuelan Waltz (Antionio Lauro)
Wedding March (Mendelssohn)