Sync with iTunes problems

When I try to sync my iPhone it start first with backing up and it takes forever, then it starts with transfering purchases etc. How can I avoid that? I would like only to ad one or two albums or one or two videos. This is annoying.
Thx

It looks like that hapens only when you don't sync iPhone for a long time like I was doing before once in a three months. I tried today again and it was very fast.
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