Tap Troupe

With taps on their shoes and boxes on their heads, this quartet dreams of stardom. We understand the taps, but the head boxes...?

— Tap Troupe Description (Rhythm Heaven Fever)

This tapping quartet dream of stardom and practise every day. The road to fame is long but pulling off a routine feels so good!

— Tap Troupe Description (Beat the Beat Rhythm Paradise)

Tap Troupe (タップスター Tap Star) is the 31st minigame in Rhythm Heaven Fever. It's about a Tall Tapper (you), performing with the Tap Troupe, a tap dancing group. Getting a perfect on this game earns the gift "At the Auditions" to read.

Gameplay

File:Tap Troupe Remix 10.png

In this game, the player controls the fourth Tall Tapper in line (far right), with their face being visible near the bottom-left of the screen. When the game starts, the members of the troupe will start stepping at a steady beat. The player needs to step along with them. At certain parts of the game, a voice will say "Rea-dy!", and the tappers get on their toes and continue tapping. When this happens, the speed of tapping increases to once ever 3/4th (dotted eighth note worth) of a note, in comparison to once every note. The length of this sequence varies. After a while, a voice will say "Tap, tap, tap!", requiring the player to tap on those beats, then go back to the original beat.

In the 3/4th note rhythm, the beat is steady. When the voice says "Tap, tap, tap," the gap between the last tap can either be 1/2 (eigth note), 3/4 (dotted eigth note), or 1 beat (quarter note) long, depending on the gap to the next measure.

[3] "Tap-tap-tap": The gap lasts 3/4th of a note (REGULAR).

[6] "Ba-bam-ba-tap-tap-tap": The gap lasts a 1/2 note (SHORTER).

[8+3] "Ba-bam-ba-bam-ba-bam-ba-bam-tap-tap-tap": The gap lasts 3/4th of a note (REGULAR).

[5+3] "Ba-bam-ba-bam-ba-tap-tap-tap": The gap lasts 1 note (LONGER). Occurs once in Tap Troupe.

[19+3] "Ba (x19)-tap-tap-tap": The gap lasts a 1/2 note (SHORTER). Occurs once in Remix 7.

Controls

• A: Step

Timing Notes

• Hit: The Tall Tappers continue their routine. After the female voice's complex tap cues, the Tall Tappers will gleefully yell out "Okay!". Additionally, halfway through the game the Tall Tapper on the left of the group will bring out a confetti popper which launches confetti. During the last few moments of the rhythm game, the Tall Tappers will wave their arms up with their hands in an OK sign.
• Barely*: A small 'tick' sound is heard when tapping off beat. The other Tall Tappers will glare at the player's Tall Tapper, annoyed. During practice, the Tall Tappers will glance over at the player. A barely counts as a miss in this game.
• Miss*: The other Tall Tappers will blow a raspberry and make a embarrased face at the player's Tall Tapper. During practice, the Tall Tappers will glance over at the player.

Rating Notes

Rhythm Heaven Fever

Header

• "Friendly Feedback"

Try Again

• "You need to get your legs together."
• "Your changeovers were kinda clumsy."
• "Your changeover combos need work."

OK

• "Eh. Good enough."

Superb

• "You kept time really well."
• "You handled changeovers well."
• "We got to say "OK!" a lot!"

Beat the Beat Rhythm Paradise

Header

• "The tap team says..."

Try Again

• "You need to get your legs together."
• "Your changeovers were clumsy."
• "Your changeover combos need work."

OK

• "Good try."

Superb

• "You kept time really well."
• "You handled changeovers well."
• "We got to say "OK!" a lot!"

Epilogue

Rhythm Heaven Fever

• Tap Troupe Try Again.png

  "We're better than this! Aren't we?"

• Tap Troupe OK.png

  "We did it! Didn't we?"

• Tap Troupe Superb.png

  "We're real stars now! ...Right?"

Beat the Beat Rhythm Paradise

• Tap Troupe EU Try Again.png

  "I thought we'd be better than this."

• Tap Troupe EU OK.png

  "I think we did it, didn't we?"

• Tap Troupe EU Superb.png

  "We're real stars now, right?"

Appearances

• Tap Troupe Remix 10.png

  Tap Troupe
  Remix 10

• Tap Troupe Remix 7.png

  Remix 7

Two-Player Mode

A version of the game can be

File:TapTroupe2Pgameplay.png

unlocked in the two player mode. It is the seventh game in it, and requires the completion on the original game and the previous two-player game, Launch Party.

The game has the first player on the far right, wearing blue shoes, and the second player on the left, wearing orange shoes. Both players have to tap along with the other two tappers. There is no main differences from the main game's pattern, other that spotlights at certain times to obscure view.

Trivia

The unused graphics.

• The Tall Tappers' box-headed, human-like appearance makes them look similar to the dancers from Rhythm Tengoku 's Space Dance and the Paddlers from Rhythm Heaven’s Rhythm Rally.
  • In the reading material you receive by perfecting this game, the troupe's leader is implied to be Space Gramps, further making the connection between them.
• The game's basic play style, with four characters stepping to a beat, makes it similar to Rhythm Tengoku’s Marching Orders.
• There are unused sprites of Tap Troupe found in the game’s files, but it looks like it’s in the DS’ graphical format. Some fans theorized that Tap Troupe was originally supposed to appear in Rhythm Heaven.
  • In addition, there’s also an unused sprite of a Tall Tapper with his hands on his hips. Oddly enough, he doesn’t have gloves on.
• The "Rea-dy!" audio cue also appears in Tangotronic 3000 in Rhythm Heaven Megamix when the Tangotronic is about to spin his partner.

In Other Languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	タップスター Tap Star
French	Vedettes des claquettes
Spanish	Gigantes del claqué
Italian	Tip Tap Star
Korean	탭스타 Tap Star