Put music on external drive...now wont play on itunes

I just purchased a external drive to run my music off to make my system faster. I dragged all my music files into the external drive then went to general perferences and set the itunes music folder location.
Now when I go into itunes and try and play a song it says the original file cannot be found. What am I doing wrong?

Move all the music back to where it was.
Set iTunes prefs -> Advanced to where you want your music to be.
Go to menu Advanced -> Consolidate library.
This will copy all music to the location you set in iTunes prefs.
Then delete the iTunes music folder from your iTunes folder.

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