Have a play around with harmonic-minor modes... ha ha... fun stuff. Weirdass stuff, especially when you mix in a few whole-tone runs etc, sounds like a cross between friedman and poe-era loomis...
ha ha, i got rid of my band again... they weren't pulling their weight... Still, i've written a hell of alot of cool stuff, i've been on a 5/8 kick lately, EVERYTHING i write is in 5/8
ha ha, yeah, harmonic minor rules man, such a cool scale...
modes are easy man, all you need to know is ONE scale, and that's it... then you simply start that scale off from the SECOND note instead of the first, and wallah! you have the second mode...! etc etc.