Bateristas del Reino: The $10,000 Skool Join Button

Bateristas del Reino is Alvaro Alzate's private Skool community for Christian drummers, with 128 members and three admins, and you cannot join it. The room is closed and it communicates that by setting its join button to $10,000, a price nobody is meant to pay, while Skool's own leaderboard reports $3,105 of real monthly revenue behind it.

Who is Alvaro Alzate?

Alvaro Alzate runs the room as @alvaro-alzate-4742, an account dating from 26 November 2024, seventeen months before the community itself opened in May 2026. His Skool bio is two sentences in Spanish and states the whole positioning: he is a Christian drummer, passionate about training drummers to worship God with excellence.

His name is heavily collided in search. Google's autocomplete for "alvaro alzate" returns a list of unrelated people with similar Colombian surname combinations and nothing about drumming, which is a useful reminder that a common name is not a brand. We assert nothing about him beyond what his Skool profile and community page state.

The searchable lane here is not his name at all. It is "bateria cristiana", a genuinely rich Spanish cluster returning tutorials, sheet music, lessons and worship-specific queries, and its English counterpart "how to play drums in church", which Google itself surfaces alongside "how to become a church drummer" and "how do I learn to play church drums".

Alvaro Alzate

Founder of Bateristas del Reino, a 128-member private Skool community for Christian drummers that is currently closed to new members. His Skool account dates from 26 November 2024 and the community opened on 7 May 2026. His Skool bio, in Spanish, describes him as a Christian drummer passionate about training drummers to worship God with excellence. He runs the room with two other admins and it holds rank 42 in the Skool Games Music category.

The $10,000 closed sign

The button says JOIN $10,000. The copy above it says, in capitals, closed community, and points to a waitlist form. Nothing on the page suggests the ten thousand is a real product.

This is the third time we have found this device, and all three are in the Music category. Templo de Ingenieria Musical displays $100,000 a month. The DJ Academy Online room, at Music rank 36 on the same pull, displays $100,000 as a one-time payment. Both are so absurd that no reader could mistake them for prices.

Ten thousand dollars is different, and that is the point worth making. It is an amount that some communities genuinely charge. A visitor who lands on the button without reading the Spanish copy above it may reasonably conclude that this is a ten thousand dollar drumming community, which is not what the founder is saying at all.

None of the three carries Skool's own lockdown flag, the field that marks a room as platform-closed and replaces the join button with a waitlist. All three closed themselves with a number instead. Skool has a supported way to do this, and using a price as a door lock is a workaround that leaves the price field lying to anyone who reads it out of context.

What the about page actually says

Read this page knowing the door is shut, because every line on it was written for an opening that has already happened. It is reproduced in full below in Spanish, the language its members read, with emoji removed, the waitlist link taken out and accented characters written without diacritics for rendering. Five lines carry markers; hover one to see why it is there.

The founding-member line with the prices missing

Read line five again. Founding members from dollars a month or dollars a year. Lock in your price for future openings. Limited places at each opening. The price may rise in the future.

That is four pricing statements in a row and not one number among them. The dollar signs are there, the units are there, the figures are gone. This is not our redaction, and we checked it twice, in the page data and in the rendered page.

It is worth being fair about how this happens. A closed room's about page is written for the open period, then edited when the doors shut, and it is easy to strip the amounts while leaving the sentence. But the consequence is a page whose entire scarcity argument, lock in your price before it rises, rests on a price the reader cannot see, sitting under a button that says ten thousand dollars.

For anyone building a room that opens in cohorts, the fix is a sentence rather than a deletion. Say what the founding price was and that it is unavailable until the next opening. That keeps the anchor working and removes the possibility of a visitor believing the button.

Two thousand visitors at a locked door

The room recorded 2,299 visitors in the reported window. That is the highest traffic of the four Music rooms in today's batch by a factor of four, and all of it goes to a page nobody can act on except by joining a waitlist.

Whether that is waste depends entirely on the waitlist. A closed room with real traffic and a working capture form is running the best version of a launch, because every visitor arrives at scarcity rather than at a price. A closed room with real traffic and a broken capture is burning the most expensive asset it has. From outside we can see the traffic and the form, and not the list.

What the revenue says about the launch

Skool reports $3,105 a month for the room, of which $2,546 arrived during the reported window. Roughly four fifths of the room's entire recurring revenue is new in one window.

That is what a cohort launch looks like in a revenue series, and it lines up with everything else on the page. The community opened on 7 May 2026, it has 209 posts, it has no reviews yet, and it is already closed. A door that opens, fills, and shuts is the oldest model in paid education, and the leaderboard now makes it legible from outside because the board is ordered by revenue and publishes the change alongside the total.

Divide the revenue by the roster and you get about $24 per member per month. Against a founding price the page will not print, that is the only clue anyone outside has to what people actually paid, and it is consistent with a low founding rate rather than with a premium one.

The funnel, step by step

Spanish-speaking church drummers arrive from search and worship-music content, find a closed door, and are asked for an email against the next opening.

The formula you can copy

Close the doors, but close them properly. The scarcity model works, and the revenue series here shows it working. Use Skool's own mechanism for it rather than a fake price, keep the about page selling the next opening, and make the waitlist the only call to action, which is exactly what this page does everywhere except the button. We wrote up the wider pattern in closing the doors on a Skool community.

Pick a lane narrow enough to claim first place in. Christian drummers is not drumming. It is a defined population with a fixed weekly obligation, a shared vocabulary and no obvious incumbent, which is why a number one claim reads as positioning rather than as bluster. Worship Guitar Mastery sells into the same structural advantage from the other side of the stage.

And never publish a number you do not mean. Three communities in this category now use a price as a door lock, and one of them has picked an amount a reader could believe. Every number on an about page is read by somebody who has not read the sentence above it.

Frequently asked questions

What is Bateristas del Reino?

Bateristas del Reino is Alvaro Alzate's private Skool community for Christian drummers, opened on 7 May 2026, with 128 members, three admins and 209 posts. It is written in Spanish and describes itself as the number one community for Christian drummers who want to stop stagnating and play with excellence in church. It offers a step-by-step methodology, live masterclasses, guest sessions, personalised analysis, recorded classes and both musical and spiritual formation.

Can you join Bateristas del Reino?

Not currently. The about page states in capitals that the community is closed and directs visitors to a waitlist form for the next opening. The join button displays $10,000 as a one-time payment, which functions as a closed sign rather than a real price, since the page itself says the room is shut. The only action available to a new visitor is joining the waitlist.

Why does the join button say $10,000?

Because the owner appears to have closed the room by setting a price nobody would pay rather than by using Skool's lockdown setting, which replaces the join button entirely. We have found the same workaround on the two other Music communities described above, both displaying $100,000. The difference here is that $10,000 is an amount some communities genuinely charge, so a visitor who does not read the Spanish copy above the button could mistake it for a real price.

Who is Alvaro Alzate?

He is the founder of Bateristas del Reino on Skool, with an account dating from 26 November 2024. His Skool bio, in Spanish, describes him as a Christian drummer passionate about training drummers to worship God with excellence. His Skool profile lists no location, so we do not assert one. His name collides heavily with unrelated people in search results, so we make no claims beyond his Skool pages.

How do you play drums in church?

The skills church drummers describe as decisive are rarely the flashy ones. Playing quietly and consistently at a volume that suits the room, holding a tempo through a song that slows down around you, following a worship leader's cues rather than a chart, and knowing when not to play at all. Dynamics matter more than fills, because the drums in a congregational setting are supporting singing rather than leading a performance.

How do you become a church drummer?

Most people describe the same route: learn basic time and a handful of common worship grooves, make yourself available to the smallest service that needs someone, and accept feedback quickly. Churches usually need reliability more than virtuosity, and a drummer who turns up every week, plays simply and watches the leader will get more seat time than a better player who is unpredictable. Rehearsing with the actual band, rather than alone to recordings, is the step most beginners skip.

Is a closed community worth joining a waitlist for?

It depends on whether the closure is real. A room that genuinely opens in cohorts gives you a defined starting group, a synchronised curriculum and a founder whose attention is not split across continuous intake, which are real advantages. A room that has been permanently closed for a year with a dead form gives you nothing. Before joining any waitlist, check when the community was created and whether it has posted recently; both are visible on Skool.