Now that I can play diminished scales over most songs effortlessly, I now have this idea of embellishing my diminished runs with chromatic tones 1/2 step above and 1/2 step below any given tone in the diminished scale. Here is an example of what I suspect is a player doing this over the skeleton pattern of a diminished run. Specifically in the B string at the beginning of this pattern.

E||————————|————————–|
B||——8–7–6–5——–|————————–|
G||——————7–4–|————————–|
D||————————|–6–5—————–5–|
A||————————|——–8–7–6–7–8—–|
E||————————|————————–|

I might be wrong about this, but I am going to experiment with it further in the next few months.