Need Help with Playing my music from my External Drive!!!! PLEASE HELP!!!

So here's the deal, i just recently got a new macbook pro and i have crap loads of music stored onto my external drive, i want to be able to listen to my music in itunes without having to store all of my music onto my internal hard drive and take up tons of space! HOW DO I DO THIS!!!!

iTunes prefs -> Advanc3ed.
Set the iTunes music folder location to the music folder on the external drive.
Then File -> Add to library and select the music folder on the external.
You can leave "copy music to iTunes music folder" checked so it copies new music to the external.

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