Syncing iphone and uploading music to iMac from phone

We're trying to upload music from an iphone and also sync the iphone to an imac...
We seem to be missing a step in the work flow to make this happen...
We are also syncing this phone to this iMac for the first time.
We also want to make sure we don't lose the music, since it's original.
Ideas?
Thanks!

Are you trying to copy music from your iPhone onto your mac? iTunes will not let you do that, it only lets you move music from your computer to your iPhone - one way - or delete it from your iPhone.
Have you synced the iPhone with any other computer in the past? Your iPhone will be linked to your iTunes account. If you try to link it to another account iTunes will wipe the phone first.

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