I play in two bands. I'll post links donw below so you can check them out if you wanna.
Pretty much the same around here - "I feel like I have to do everything and it has to be so just so... refined and all that."
It's been like that for some time now. Actually since when I started.
My answer to you is - go for what you feel is ok to you. Whatever it is. Don't just hold it back. If you want to write off a tune and build it completely - do it. If it's just an idea - try and work it out from varied and various perspectives.
I wrote a lot of songs just by myself in both bands. Sometimes my bandmates loved them. Sometimes they didn't. Either way I kept going. sometimes I just halt my flow and go like "let's write altogether from this idea I have". Sometimes it's just the urge to write and create something entirely by myself.
Right now it's a trippy period for me. I tend to compose a lot of idea like I am piling up material for the future. So I have tidbits of structures and songs here and there. Some stuff I really like, some things I just don't know what to do with.
Yesterday was a good day becuz once again I was jamming out to some loop I had and BANG - all of a sudden I came up with a whole thing. Which is good in a way, helps me being more confident in my writing capabilities.
So - again - go for whatever you wanna do, you have all the time to rethink it later. But if these ideaes you have don't lead you nowhere, try something different.
I started playing when I was 17. I am 25. I couldn't imagine I could write a lot of things but damn... here I am and I think with something like... 50 songs written for each band? Maybe more, with the outtakes and all.
If interested:
www.dahliaindaco.com -
www.recsoftheflesh.com