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e.g. https://www.justinguitar.com/guitar-lessons/harmonic-minor-the-five-patterns-sc-704 for some noodling ideas...
JM
https://www.musicnotes.com/blog/japanese-scales-in-music-theory/
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
You can get some pretty exotic sounds by pushing the 'plain old' minor pentatonic with certain inflections: b5, bent third, random chromaticisms*, etc. I quite like this approach because you can use the 'plain old' as a basic framework and not have to learn 100 other variations: if you can hear it, you can try and squeeze it out of your fingers...so there is value in getting familiar with, say, those Japanese scales I linked above just so you can absorb the flavour of the intervals.
* I think of this as 'engaging Chris Poland mode' for any old school Megadeth fans
In the traditional east European Jewish modal music that I play on clarinet (klezmer), the mode starting on the fifth degree of the harmonic minor scale is called Ahava Raba or freygish and starts with a half-step then jumps an augmented 2nd to the major third. This gives an interesting combination of minor tonality that is harmonised major.
The other varient starts of the fourth degree and puts the augmented 2nd between the 3rd and 4th degree.... this mode is called mishebeyrach and is a prety sacred mode. Has minor tonality and is harmonised minor.
...and that's 'dorian #11' (had to look that one up ).
edit: oh, like DK said lol
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.