Protégé

(Song and Silence: A Guidebook to Bards and Rogues, DnD 3.0)

Evocation

Level: ; Bard 6
Components: V, S
Casting Time: 3 rounds
Range: Touch
Target: Creature touched
Duration: 1 minute per caster level
Saving Throw: Will negates (harmless)
Spell Resistance: Yes (harmless)

You can briefly grant bardic abilities to a creature of your choice.

The subject of the spell can then function as a bard of half your current bard level with respect to bardic music and bardic knowledge.

However, protégé imparts no spellcasting ability and does not grant access to spells not normally available to the subject.

For Perform checks and bardic music prerequisites, the creature uses its own ranks in Perform or half of yours, whichever is better.

Focus: The caster's instrument.