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    <title>David Maxim Micic - Bilo I &amp; Bilo II guitar songbook</title>

    <description>

        Details about the songbook I created for David Maxim Micic's EPs "Bilo I" and "Bilo II"

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    <image>	dmm-bilo-book-cover-front-only.jpeg</image>

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    <category>Music</category>

    <category>Music transcription</category>

    <category>Guitar</category>

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<p>

    In December 2024 I re-engraved <a href="https://davidmaximmicic.bandcamp.com/music">David

    Maxim Micic</a>'s two EPs <em>Bilo I</em> and <em>Bilo II</em> and printed off a songbook.

    Because I like the music, I already had the official tablature, and after the moderate

    success of the <glacius:link page="music/sources-of-light-tab-book">Sources of Light book</glacius:link>

    I wanted to make another one.

</p>

<p>

    I also did some additional transcriptions for some of the solos that didn't seem accurate

    and all of the vocals as a transcription for those did not exist.

</p>

<p>

    I used Sibelius 6 and the <code>pdfcpu</code> command line utility, in addition to a mild

    dearth of scripts I wrote to automatically add page numbers, etc.

</p>

<p>

    <a href="https://inkscape.org/">Inkscape</a> was used to "design" the cover and spine, such

    as they are. I literally did my best. Pretty sure I spelled everything correctly.

</p>

<p>

    <a href="https://krita.org/en/">Krita</a> was used to convert the cover to CYMK (there

    <em>has</em> to be a better way to do this on Linux but I have not found it yet).

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<p>

    The book was 108 pages. I used <a href="https://www.bookbaby.com/">BookBaby</a> for printing

    as I had used them before and was satisified with the quality. It cost $108 to print one book.

</p>

<h2>Images</h2>

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        <caption>Front cover</caption>

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    <glacius:figure glacius:src="dmm-bilo-book-cover-back.jpeg" type="image" glacius:thumbnail="dmm-bilo-book-cover-back-thumb.jpeg">

        <caption>Back cover</caption>

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    <glacius:figure glacius:src="dmm-bilo-book-content-1.jpeg" type="image" glacius:thumbnail="dmm-bilo-book-content-1-thumb.jpeg">

        <caption>Book content sample #1</caption>

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    <glacius:figure glacius:src="dmm-bilo-book-content-2.jpeg" type="image" glacius:thumbnail="dmm-bilo-book-content-2-thumb.jpeg">

        <caption>Book content sample #2</caption>

    </glacius:figure>

     <glacius:figure glacius:src="dmm-bilo-book-content-3.jpeg" type="image" glacius:thumbnail="dmm-bilo-book-content-3-thumb.jpeg">

        <caption>Book content sample #3</caption>

    </glacius:figure>

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