Clearing Memory and using External HD as iTunes Location

Hi all
I am having a little trouble with clearing space on my MacBook Pro (4GB Memory running Mac OS X 10.7.5). It is running slowly and often comes up with a warning message saying there's insufficinet space on the start up disk and that there is little memory left. I have copied all pictures and music on to an External HD (2TB Seagate connected by Wifi) but all the music is still in the iTunes library too.
I would still like to use iTunes as my music library but need to delete the music from my laptop so that it has more space on it. How do I do this? I have tried it with one song i.e. I have deleted it from the iTunes library on my machine and the song remains on the External HD..... but how can it work so that when I go into iTunes it will still find the songs on the Extrnal HD?
I will also be buying a Sonos hifi system so I will be using the music stored on the external hard drive as the library but I believe this all goes through iTunes anyway?
Hopefully this makes sense and apologies for the lack of knowledge around technical jargon...
Thanks in advance.....

Our iTunes guru Terence Devlin advises the following:
1. Quit iTunes
2. Drag the iTunes folder from your internal hd - located in ~/Music folder - to your external hd (which has to be formatted as HFS Extended (Journaled)). DO NOT delete the original one from your internal hd... yet!
3. When the transfer is complete, press and hold the Option(alt) key and fire up iTunes.
4. A "Choose iTunes Library" window will come up. Click on the "Choose Library" button.
5. Navigate to where the iTunes folder is located in the external hd.
6. Within the iTunes folder, select the iTunes Library file and click Choose...
That's it. iTunes will now display all your playlists, songs, movies, podcasts etc. At this point, should you wish, you can delete the iTunes folder from the internal hd to free up space.
More info:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1751
Or if you prefer a more complicated explanation:
http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/moving-your-itunes-library-to -a-new-hard-drive

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