Ko to tire tuatahi ko te tokorua he mea nui ki te tumanako. Ka raruraru pea koe i nga ahuatanga o mua-ko to ra marena i muri i te katoa! - a mo etahi meneti torutoru, kei a koe nga kanohi katoa. Ko te whiriwhiri i tetahi waiata marena e whai tikanga motuhake ka whakaahuru i nga pukupuku kia taea ai e koe te arotahi ki te tango tika i nga kanikani!
Tuatahi, ka hiahia koe ki te whakatau i te tere o te waiata kanikani tuatahi e hiahia ana koe. Ko te nuinga o te iwi e whiriwhiri ana i tetahi mea e pupuhi ana me te 4/4 te tukinga no te mea ko te mea tino pai ki te kanikani.
Whakanohoia etahi raupapa matapōkei me te kanikani i roto i to ruma noho hei kite i nga mea e tika ana.
I muri iho, whakaarohia he aha te waiata e tino whai hua ana ki a koe. I reira ka takaro te waiata i te wa tuatahi i kihi ai koe, i te wa ranei i whakauru koe? He kupu ranei kei a koe te whakaaro o tetahi atu? Kei roto i te waahi o te waiata e whakapau tonu ana i to ngakau? Mena he pai te marena o ou matua, tera pea e hiahia ana koe ki te kanikani ki te waiata kotahi i mahia e ratou?
Mena ka uiui koe i enei uiuinga kaore koe e arahi ki taua waahanga pai, kaua e manukanuka: Kaore te nuinga o nga marena i "to ratou waiata" tae noa ki ta ratou whiriwhiri i te waiata kanikani tuatahi. Engari, kia roa te whakaaro ki te pehea e whakaahuahia ai to aroha, a ka rapu i nga waiata me nga waiata e tika ana ki taua whakaaturanga.
Kaore he wa poto ki te kimi i te waiata kanikani tuatahi, engari ko te rongo pai e taea ana e koe te nui o te ngahau ki te pera.
Ka taea hoki e koe te korero ki o kaihoko. Ko to hoa marena me DJ ka whai whakaaro ki a koe i to raatau rehita.
Kia tika kia tirohia nga kupu! Ko etahi o nga waahi waiata waiata kanikani tuatahi e tino mohio ana mo te mamae me te mate o te tangata e arohaina ana.
Mena kei te raruraru koe me te waiata, kei konei he raupapa o nga waiata kanikani tuatahi.
- "Ko koe taku Tuatahi, taku whakamutunga, aku mea katoa" (Barry White)
- "Tangohia taku Mahanga" (Berlin)
- "Ko te Rose" (Bette Midler)
- "Kei konei to tatou aroha" (Billie Holiday)
- "Ko te ara noa koe" (Billy Joel)
- "Ko ia te ara" (Billy Joel)
- "Kua tae mai i tenei po" (Bob Seger)
- "Ko koe toku Anga Motuhake" (Bobby Helms)
- "Ki te" (Poaka)
- "Ko nga mea katoa kei ahau" (Parei)
- "Rangi" (Bryan Adams)
- "Nga Tikanga Toka Pono" (Buddy Holly)
- "I tenei po me te kore" (Carly Simon)
- "Ko koe te Inspiration" (Chicago)
- "Lady In Red" (Chris DeBurgh)
- "He roa" (Dan Fogelberg)
- "Te aroha kore" (Diana Ross & Lionel Richie)
- "Ka taea e koe te aro ki te aroha i tenei po" (Elton John)
- "Hoa" (Elton John)
- "Ko te Kotahi" (Elton John)
- "Te Waiata" (Elton John)
- "E kore e taea te awhina i te hinga i roto i te aroha" (Elvis Presley)
- "Katoa" (Muku)
- "I te Whakamutunga" (Etta James)
- "Kia waiho ahau" (Everly Brothers)
- "Songbird" (Fleetwood Mac)
- "Ko te Mea pai kei te haere mai" (Frank Sinatra)
- "Ko te ara e titiro ana koe inaianei" (Frank Sinatra)
- "Mehemea i aroha ahau ki a koe" (mai i Carousel)
- "Kia rite te wa e haere ana" (mai i Casablanca)
- "Ko etahi Maehe Ataahua" (mai i Te Moana-a-Kiwa ki te Tonga)
- "He wahi" (mai i West Side Story)
- "Kaupapa Aroha ki Romeo & Juliet" (mai i Zeffirelli's Romeo me Juliet)
- "Kaore tetahi mea e whakarereke i taku aroha mo koe" (Glenn Medeiros)
- "Kei konei matou" (Gloria Estefan)
- "Ataahua" (Gordon Lightfoot)
- "Me waiho koe" (Harry Connick, Jr.)
- "Na koinei te aroha" (James Ingram)
- "Ki runga kei hea tatou" (Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warrens)
- "He Tika Ataahua koe" (Joe Cocker)
- "Wahine" (John Lennon)
- "Ka oati ahau" (John Michael Montgomery)
- "He Maea" (Johnny Mathis)
- "Ataahua I Nga Mata" (Joshua Kadison)
- "Na i roto i te aroha" (kd lang)
- "Kaua e mohio nui" (Linda Ronstadt & Aaron Neville)
- "He aha te ao miharo" (Louis Armstrong)
- "I konei me teianei" (Luther Vandross)
- "He Moemoea Moemoea" (Mamas & the Papas)
- "Hero" (Mariah Carey)
- "Tupu Tupu Ki ahau" (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
- "Ko koe" (Nat King Cole)
- "Ngamaharakore" (Nat King Cole)
- "Ina hinga au i te aroha" (Nat King Cole)
- "Marena Mae" (Neil Diamond & Buffy Lawson)
- "Ki te Aroha tetahi Tamariki" (Percy Sledge)
- "I muri i te katoa" (Peter Cetera & Cher)
- "Te kororia o te aroha" (Peter Cetera)
- "Song Song (He Love)" (Petula Clark)
- "Mahalo te Aroha" (Placido Domingo & John Denver)
- "I te Ao Mure ore, Amene" (Randy Travis)
- "Ko koe te mea katoa" (REM)
- "Ko te Melody Taehia" (Tamariki Tika)
- "I tenei po ka whakanui ahau i taku aroha mo koe" (Roberta Flack & Peabo Bryson)
- "He pono, Mao, Tino" (Savage Garden)
- "Kiss From A Rose" (Waitohu)
- "Te Moemoea o koe" (Selena)
- "Mai i tenei wa" (Shania Twain & Brian White)
- "Kei a koe tonu" (Shania Twain)
- "Mehemea kaore ahau i mohio ki a koe" (Shanice Wilson & John Secada)
- "Pono" (Spandau Ballet)
- "Ko koe te Mataora o toku Ora" (Stevie Wonder)
- "Te ti'aturi nei au (i te taime e hina au i roto i te here)" (Stevie Wonder)
- "Ma Cherie Amour" (Stevie Wonder)
- "Homai he Paku iti" (Supertramp)
- "Te ahi mure ore" (The Bangles)
- "Ka pai au" (The Beatles)
- "I roto i toku Ora" (The Beatles)
- "He mea" (The Beatles)
- "Kua Kotahi Ana matou" (Ko nga Kaitarai)
- "I Te Ao o te Po" (The Five Satins)
- "Ko ahau anake he kanohi mo koe" (The Flamingos)
- "He ahua nui o te aroha" (The Mindbenders)
- "Aue, Pehea te Tau Haere i" (Vanessa Williams)
- "E Marena koe i ahau?" (Vonda Shepard)
- "Kia mau ki ahau" (Whitney Houston & Teddy Pendergrass)
- "Kotahi te wa i te wa" (Whitney Houston)