How to Make a K-pop Line Distribution (Step by Step)
A good line distribution is consistent more than it is perfect. Decide your rules before you start, apply them to every member, and the numbers will be comparable across songs.
1. Decide what counts as a line
Most fans time every part where a member's voice is the main vocal: verses, pre-choruses, choruses, raps and bridges.
Ad-libs and background vocals are often skipped, because they are hard to hear and blur the result. Whatever you choose, apply it the same way to everyone.
2. Use the official audio
Time the official audio or the music video, not a live stage. Live versions change the parts, and fan-cams cut audio.
Lyric videos with color-coded lyrics help a lot: they show who sings each line, and you only have to time it.
3. Time in seconds, not lines
Hold the member's pad from the first sound of the line to the last. A held high note can be longer than a whole verse, and seconds capture that.
For parts the whole group sings, hold every member's pad together, or skip them if your rules exclude group parts.
4. Check and correct
Play the song through once without timing to learn the parts. Then time it, and use undo when you press the wrong pad.
If a part is unclear, pause, seek back a few seconds and time it again. Small errors of a few tenths of a second don't change the overall picture.
5. Turn it into a video
Export the vertical video. It starts at the song's 0:00 and is silent, so place it over the song in your editor and it lines up.
Add the group name and song title to your caption. Fans often search for the song title plus “line distribution”.