A little help needed

A little help needed

Hi everyone, just joined the forum. I'm just starting to learn JQuery and loving it so far but i've run into a problem and could do with a little guidance. It's probably a relatively simple thing.

What I have is an unordered list with say 9 <li> items. I want to select the first 3 and style them differently and then add some animation but so far have been unable to find a selector I can use to select more than one <li> item.

Do i just need to use $("li:eq(x)") and do one for each item I want to select or is there a better way?