Is it okay to practice singing like this?

What does your singing teacher have to say about your plan? It depends on your abilities and your experience. Practicing all the time even with breaks between can be a disaster for someone untrained or someone who just started his/her training.

That's absolutely fine. I'm sure your teacher would agree that it plenty. No need to overdo it and stress out your voice. Maybe just start with the half an hour for a while, and work up to more. I've had training for 8 years and the most I practice each day is an hour, not including my Chamber Choir rehearsals and my weekly Jazz Group practices.

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In actual fact - just singing for an hour or even half an hour IS NOT practising. It means your just learning the lyrics and the music notation.

If you are not correcting your errors - if you have no knowledge on how to correct your faults you could actually be doing laryngeal damage. Your voice coach should have warned you of this and explained how she wanted you to practice.

Don't take too much notice of the amateurs on this website as they have no qualifications on Laryngeal Biomechanics and more often than not are just repeating what other people have said.

I keep telling people that as a singer it's very important to develop common sense.

One should only attempt to sing IF their voice/body is free from 'stress' which could lead to vocal fatigue, and, whilst extensive periods of vocal practice is good it is also wise to know when you need to take a break.

Depending on the 'fitness' of your 'vocal folds' you can sing for as long as you want, until you're tired enough not to continue.

You said you get distracted, which means that as a singer you'll have to discipline yourself eventually to not feel/get distracted.

Obviously, when you sing you use energy. The result is hunger, which means you'll eat something light (possessing enough energy inducing substance. ex. protein, some fruits; eggs contain protein) atleast 3 to 4 hours before you start your practice. Then, when you commence your practice will sing for as long as your body/voice will let you. Once the limit is reached, for example, you get hungry, it means you should rest your voice/body until the following day. Go ahead. Eat something. Carry on with your usual day to day activities. If your body possesses a quick sense of recovery, only then would you do more practice. But, you do so at your own risk. This is why I said common sense should be a part of what the singer does.

In a lot of cases, face to face lessons are NOT needed if the singer has the necessary resources available, and, I don't mean just the internet. Some singers are so talented (innate) that not once in their life would they ever need vocal coaching. All they would maybe need to do is verify their knoweldge by applying some theory. These people tend to become vocal coaches themselves in order to reach out to others who are not 'intelligent' enough to recognize their ability, or lack the skills that support healthy vocal production.

My coach ran a study on this, actually (has a doctorate degree). The results show that two 30 minute sessions were better than one 1-hour session.

This is a good online resource I recommend if you want to become a better singer http://www.goobypls.com/r/rd.asp?gid=295

Cheers ;)