How do I delete songs off of my iphone4s?

I am having a really hard time getting songs off of my iphone. I know that I need to go to itunes and uncheck all of the songs from the "music" tab under where I see my iphone as a device, but it's still not working. I went on other discussion boards on here and read that I should try to uncheck the box to manually manage music and then try to uncheck them again, but now I have my entire itunes library on my phone, even though I unchecked all of the boxes of music that I don't want. Help!

l2interiors wrote:
Under "devices" when you click on my iphone, and look at the summary I have "sync only checked songs" clicked and "manually manage music and videos" clicked. Is this incorrect?
If you have Manually manage music and videos checked, then checking/unchecking songs does nothing.
Just select them on the iPhone and press Delete.
Check all the songs in iTunes.
Create playlists in iTunes that you wnat to use for the iPhone.
Select the iPhone in iTunes & uncheck Manually manage Music and Videos.
Click the Music tab across the top.
Select Sync playlists and Selected playlists.
Tick the playlists you want on the iPhone.
Click Sync at the bottom.
To change the content on your iPhone, just add/delete from these playlists and sync the iPhone.

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