Why can't I drag music from my itunes library onto my iphone ?

I recently got an iphone 5 and synced it to my desktop computer. I then bought a MacBook pro and synced my iphone to it but I cannot put music from my MacBook onto my iphone. I even restored the phone and backed it up to the MacBook but I still cannot move music onto my iphone.

Hi there dstratton25,
You may find the information about manually managing content in the article below helpful.
Managing content manually on iPhone, iPad, and iPod
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1535
-Griff W. 

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