What chord do the notes D,E,G make?

please help, i really need to know. Thanx!!!

Maryanna, from your description this looks like a C major chord with an added 2nd (C add2 or some might call it a C sus2) especially if there is a C note in the bass line somewhere.

This combination is used more often in popular music to add a little bite to the sound. It was used in the introduction to the Carpenters hit "Close to You."

Also if the D alternates back and forth with the C below it, it adds some motion to what would just be repeated C major chords.

Play the same combination as repeated notes in a higher register and you have a Christmas jingle bell effect.

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none, it makes a grouping of notes but not a real chord.

sorry for that

Yeah, what the guy above me said.

C9, e7, others. depends on the context

They don't make a full chord. However the notes D E and G are present in Em7, C9, G11and Gm11 - and that's just assuming one more note is there to be added. If there were others like an F# for instance it could be a D11 and so on.

none, a chord is 1, 3, 5, 8 in a scale, and that would be 2,3,5 for the C scale...sorry!!!

Good luck!!!

i wish people wouldn't answer these musical related questions if they dint know music....sorry, its just upsetting, you ask a perfectly normal question and the two at the top give you a smug, incorrect ansew....geez. apegiate G, E,G, E...over n over, old cowboy song, classic.

It could be an e7 in third inversion, leaving out the 5th

The chords are NOT build just on thirds. The "third interval chord" is the chord used in the tonal music, from Baroque era to early 20'th century (for example, in Richard Strauss's music). The 7'th, the 9'th (or other elements) added to the "third interval chord" could make (in repositioning the elements) the chord that you write about (with elliptic elements).
But, they are other chords (other type of chords) which are using other "generator interval": the "second interval chord" (e.g. C D E), the "fourth interval chord" (e.g. D G C), the "fifth interval chord" (e.g. G D A) and the mixture between them: a "second with fourth chord" (e.g. D E G). If you listen Debussy's music you'll observe that it is plenty of this type of modal chords.

It could be an inverted G chord with an added 6th. It could also just be a cluster chord.