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I always thought that working on something harder than something else also helped making that other thing easier. I thought practicing in odd times would help me play in even times better. That was part of my motivation of learning odd times.

I think you should work out a few tunes and call them on gigs and try them out. Get used to playing in 5. I figured that playing 3 and 2 would help you're playing in three as well as playing in 5!

And odd times can be really fun and liberating. All of a sudden you're feeling comfortable in an odd time, that's a good feeling!

just a quick application comment...

this line is quartal vocabulary (or fourthy vocabulary hahaha).

it's a quartal chord just in an inversion. If you made C# the bottom note voiced... C#, F#, B, E you would have stacked 4ths.

where to play this? Well it could be...

Emaj giving you scale degrees 13-9-5-1
Amaj (3-13-9-5)
Dmaj (7-3-13-9)
C#minor (1, 11, 7, 3)
F#minor (5-1-11-7)
Bminor (9-5-1-11)
E7 (13-9-5-1)
Bb7alt (#9-b13-b9-#11)

I'm sure I left a few out. But do you guys see how it fits into all of those chords?