How to sync music from iPhone to new MacBook pro

Hi everyone I just got my first Mac computer so please excuse my ignorance. I have an iPhone that has a ton of music on it most of it from the iTunes Store but some songs are from CD's from people. I am a dance teacher so a good chunk of my music is not bought from iTunes. I need to sync the music from my iPhone to iTunes on my computer. Can someone please give me step by step directions on how to do this so I won't lose all the music that was not from iTunes. I also do not want the sync to erase the music from my iPhone because I need it for the gym. Thanks so much the help is so appreciated!

Any music you purchased from iTunes can be transferred, the rest will have to be imported to the MBP from the prior source. Examine this discussion:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/8788780#8788780
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