The aim of this paper is to disclose new methodological possibilities for improving music ear for ethnic modal scales and rhythmical patterns by means of modern electronic devices in the field of music education. Musicological and methodological analysis of mobile applications for smartphones and tablets is the main core of such a demonstration. The traditional ethnic music from India, Iran, China and other non-European countries is used as rhythmical and melodic basis of these applications. Most part of the selected and analyzed applications may be successfully used in academic courses of ear training at the secondary and high levels of music education. The concrete methodological possibilities of ethnic music instrument-simulators as well as applications-thesauruses (modal and rhythmical) have been demonstrated for the purposes of ear training in pentatonic, mixed diatonic and symmetrical modal scales, microchromatic intonations and also for training in syncopation and irregularly accented rhythmic.
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