From my thoughts that I had earlier on chromatic chord substitution comes another wacky idea that I have. This new concept is called “movable arpeggios” and has helped me a lot with my soloing even though I still don’t sound quite right.
For example, from any normal arpeggio pattern, you can take the portion of the arpeggio that is on the D through the high E strings and use that arpeggio as a movable arpeggio shape. Since certain arpeggios fit with “minor” tunes and others fit best with “major” tunes, you can pick one or two different arpeggio shapes that fit the particular song and move them as the chords change in the song. Of course, when the song is on the V and begins to resolve back to the start, I usually stick in a simple little diminished pattern or a piece of harmonic minor scale.
The patterns that I am playing with at the moment are the major (Dm chord at the first position) shape, the major6, melodic minor, diminished, and the major 7th. I am still working on this idea, but it sounds interesting if you use the idea to solo to minor swing.