Time Machine and external HD music from iTunes?

Dear Apple friends,
To save space on my internal hard drive, I use an external hard drive to store all my music and have my iTunes play it off the external. Now, it seems that Time Machine (I use a different external HD for TM), does not back up those files on the other external HD. Which means if something were to happen to my Music HD then I would lose all that music there. How can I make Time Machine back up everything on my Power Book's hard drive including the music files it plays off my other external hard drive? I enjoy how seamless it is to download and play music directly off the hard drive with iTunes now if only I can get it backed up with Time Machine!
Thanks
Tomes

thanks for that very helpful link - perhaps i can explain my situation and you can assist me further - i transfered all my itunes music to an external hard drive after i switched from an old G4 tower to a new MBP - i suppose i wanted to conserver the hard drive - but is the best thing to do import the entire 10 GB of music? or is their a better, seamless way to keep them on an external HD - thanks

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