I didn't say it IS easy.
I am saying that the purpose is that WE WANT IT TO BE EASY. Never spoke to a person that likes it to be difficult.
I can't see the reason for having an education for making music I really don't. I want it to be as simple as possible that it comes out just like that. I don't want to study so much like I did through the years. If I knew back then how difficult it all would be, I would have been less enthousiastic about this hobby.
Just about every kid can run. They don't need to be taught; it's something they figure out naturally, without tuition. And they can run pretty fast too! In this sense, running is easy. However, if you want to make a career in running, if you want to be among the athletic elite, then simply doing what comes naturally won't do it. This is where it becomes hard work, and the elite athletes devote a huge amount of their time to training and practice.
Being an Olympian is definitely not "easy", and only the most self-centred seeker of instant gratification wants the rewards without the effort. You see this often on Idol: the aspiring popstars believing they should win because they are 'passionate' about music, who equate desire with entitlement.
Sound engineering and driving a car are both 'easy' . . . once you have acquired the knowledge and experience to make it easy. But similar conditions apply. I get by driving my car with unconscious competence through many years of driving, and likewise with my mixing. But if I aspire to Formula 1 driving, or to be amongst the elite of engineers, then I have to continue to learn more skills and how to use increasingly more sophisticated equipment.
There is no easy way out, and there are no easy answers. For example, how do you answer a question like "what's the best cornering speed?" or "when do I apply the brakes to outbreak someone I'm attempting to overtake on a corner?". These are questions that only practice, experience and familiarity with the equipment can deliver.
Some people have extraordinary natural talents. I know a keyboard player who doesn't have a clue about musical theory, nor what the keys on a piano represent. "Middle C" means nothing to him. Yet he plays piano brilliantly, improvising on the basis of what his ears tell him, and according to groupings of fingers on the keys that sound satisfying. For all his brilliance, he will not get far in the music industry until (or unless) he comes to understand what he is doing, so that if someone says "can you play a Cmaj7 here?" he will know what it means. Achieving commercial success, or even just being recognised as in the pinnacle of performers in the music industry, is extremely difficult without study, and devotion and dedication to one's craft.
