Below is a chord progression similar to the old blues tune "Nobody loves you when you're down and out". I used it because it's probably vaguely familiar to most and it's full of different flavor chords. I've written it out in the key of F# to begin with, an unfriendly guitar key, and as you can see, it's a daunting task to follow them all, requiring most to be played as barre chords.

The way around this less-than-friendly progression is to turn it into a guitar key. Let's pick C. Referring to the chart, the C column is 6 away from the F# column. So we put our capo on the 6th fret and play as if in C. Retaining each chord's rank in the key (row) and its original flavor (as in major - minor -7th), we get:

Much easier to get the fingers around, as all except the F are open chords. We could also have put the capo on the 4th fret and played as if in D, or the second fret and played as if in E.