How to uncheck many music pieces at once?

Is there any way to uncheck music pieces automatically,
instead of manually one by one (which I find silly).
All I see in iTunes' menu is SELECT ALL, SELECT NONE
which has nothing to do with the check mark.
I often have to check a lot of them and then
I have to take them off one at a time and my music
library is very, very long, going through the whole thing
to uncheck is extremely time consuming.
Could someone give me a script that would do that ?
I'm not a programmer, so I have no clue how to do this.
Thanks
iTunes 9.0.3, Leopard

As well as CMD click you can also select a range or tracks with SHIFT or CMD and then right/option to produce a context-sensitve menu with options to check or uncheck the selected tracks. Because CMD-click anywhere other that the check-box can be used to add or remove tracks from a selection people often accidentaly CMD-click on the checkbox and suddenly find all tracks are checked or unchecked. For this reason it may well be easier to use playlists to include or exclude specific tracks from your device rather than using check boxes to manage the synced content.
tt2

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