The Faber Piano Adventures series, used by many piano teachers today, includes Popular Repertoire Books, with pieces that will, hopefully, appeal to students. It’s terrific that these “popular” pieces are included with the Faber series! However, it is not reasonable to expect that the materials in these books will truly teach students how to play popular music as it's most often performed. Why not? The specific arrangements the authors have included do indeed sound reasonably good. So then, what is wrong?