Start Up Disk is Full but i don't have much on my Mac!!!

Hello, I am trying to download and use Cord for work as well as update my iTunes to the newest release, however it says I do not have space!!!! I moved 9k photos to an external HD yesterday and deleted them from iPhoto as well as have an empty trash can, I took a screen shot of what my memory under about this mac says, someone please help, I literally have zero pics on this computer, and about 900 songs, most of which are in the cloud because it says I do not have enough memory to download them, I am at a loss, and fairly computer savvy less!!!!
I do not even know how I got to hard drives and what could possible be taking up so much spacE!!!!!
Thank you!!

Thank you for the quick response!!! I have NO idea how this happened either, I was trying to install yosemite and it has been messed up since, it did install yosemite but since then I have zero memory, this is a shot of my disk utility, will you kindly walk me through the steps you would take to start over? I have my music and photos backed up so starting from scratch is a very viable option for me, thank you for your time and help!!

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